Forgers purchase real American Revolutionary Struggle-period paperwork and surreptitiously pen a famous patriot's name between different actual signatures in a manuscript in hope of deceiving an unsuspecting buyer.
Because of the complexity of her dealing with and of the need to help the Free France, Le Triomphant was handed to the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL) on 28 August 1940 and put below the command of captain Pierre Gilly.