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After spending the night at Little Rest, Washington is welcomed aboard the 80-gun flagship of the French fleet by the Duc de Bourgogne. Washington tours the great ship, greeting the French officers and enlisted men in their best dress uniforms. Meanwhile, with flags and banners waving, the entire squadron fires broadsides in Washington's honor. The combined cannon fire was so great and so continuous that, according to a Newport resident, "the earth trembled, and the bay seemed to be on fire."
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