The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution: Being the Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, John Adams, John Jay, Arthur Lee, William Lee, Ralph Izard, Francis Dana, William Carmichael, Henry Laurens, John Laurens, M. de Lafayette, M. Dumas, and Others, Concerning the Foreign Relations of the United States During the Whole Revolution; Together with the Letters in Reply from the Secret Committee of Congress, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Also, the Entire Correspondence of the French Ministers, Gerard and Luzerne, with Congress, Volume 10Jared Sparks N. Hale and Gray & Bowen. G. & C. & H. Carvill, New York., 1830 - United States |
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... favor of Spain , and for facilitating the co - operation of the French forces in America . To the President of Congress . Philadelphia , June 21st , 1779 , Proposing the adoption of measures for maintaining the immunity of the French ...
... favor of Spain , and for facilitating the co - operation of the French forces in America . To the President of Congress . Philadelphia , June 21st , 1779 , Proposing the adoption of measures for maintaining the immunity of the French ...
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... favor of the 25th and 29th of July till the last of September , although I had acknowledged the receipt of the letters , by the same conveyance , much earlier . Your letter contained so much important matter , that it was laid before ...
... favor of the 25th and 29th of July till the last of September , although I had acknowledged the receipt of the letters , by the same conveyance , much earlier . Your letter contained so much important matter , that it was laid before ...
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... favor of the latter . It is a singular event . There are few instances of independ- ent States submitting their cause to a Court of Justice . The day will come , when all disputes in the great re- public of Europe will be tried in the ...
... favor of the latter . It is a singular event . There are few instances of independ- ent States submitting their cause to a Court of Justice . The day will come , when all disputes in the great re- public of Europe will be tried in the ...
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... favor of a diminution of the duties on codfish , you answered , that it would be necessary to give to France a similar ad- vantage , and that by virtue of former treaties , the English might set up pretensions to the same ; but that you ...
... favor of a diminution of the duties on codfish , you answered , that it would be necessary to give to France a similar ad- vantage , and that by virtue of former treaties , the English might set up pretensions to the same ; but that you ...
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... owe Count de Montmorin the credit to say , that not only at that time , but in every instance where he could operate on the Count de The Court was then at Pardo . Florida Blanca in our favor , he threw in all 34 LAFAYETTE .
... owe Count de Montmorin the credit to say , that not only at that time , but in every instance where he could operate on the Count de The Court was then at Pardo . Florida Blanca in our favor , he threw in all 34 LAFAYETTE .
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Page 83 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 96 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 106 - It is agreed, that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind, on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Page 105 - Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude.
Page 106 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such...
Page 107 - Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States. And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties, as may have been confiscated...
Page 193 - His Britannic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes, or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons, and fleets from the said United States, and from every port, place, and harbour within the same...
Page 98 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 201 - An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Page 107 - ... not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation, which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.