American French Relations, 1794-1796.

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American French Relations, 1794-1796.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758909439

Copies of the original correspondence relative to the French captures and the spoliations of American seamen, the Genet Affair, and the treaty with Great Britain, including copies of letters by Edmond Randolph, Timothy Pickering, George Washington, Joseph Fauchet and P.A. Adet.

1 volume, 167 pages.

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Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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Adet, Pierre-Auguste, 1763-1832?

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Pierre-Auguste Adet was French minister plenipotentiary to the United States from 1795 to 1797. General George Rogers Clark was an American officer who was commissioned by France in 1793 to lead an army against the Spanish in Louisiana and the Floridas in order to secure the Mississippi River for French trade. Colonel Samuel Fulton was an American citizen employed as a spy for the French. From the description of Instruction secrette pour le Colonel Fulton, [1796 July 21]. (Unknown). ...