What did president adams do to protect the us ships in the atlantic?

The French began seizing American merchant ships that were trading with the British, so president John Adams, second president of the USA and one of the Founding Fathers, rebuilt Navy to protect American ships and also started harassing French ships. This was the undeclared naval war between the U. S. and France - the Quasi-War which broke out in 1798. However, in In February 1799, Adams sent diplomat William Vans Murray on a peace mission to France