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The Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine (French: Traité de Mortefontaine), was signed on September 30, 1800, by the United States and France.The difference in name was due to congressional sensitivity at entering into treaties, due to disputes over the 1778 treaties of Alliance and Commerce between France and the U.S.
From 1798 to 1800, France and the U.S. waged an undeclared war at sea, the so-called Quasi-War, which was ended by the Convention of 1800 or Treaty of Mortefontaine. With an already hostile British Canada to the north, the U.S. wanted to avoid an aggressive and powerful France replacing Spain in the south.
30 September - The Convention of 1800 (Treaty of Mortefontaine), signed between the United States and France, ends the Quasi-War. 1 October - Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, secretly negotiated between France and Spain, by which Spain returns the colonial territory of Louisiana to France.
The subsequent negotiations, embodied in the Convention of 1800 (also called the "Treaty of Mortefontaine") of September 30, 1800, affirmed the rights of Americans as neutrals upon the sea and abrogated the alliance with France of 1778. The treaty failed to provide compensation for the $20,000,000 "French Spoliation Claims" of the United States ...
The Château de Mortefontaine was the site of the signing of the Convention of 1800 (also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine), a treaty of friendship between France and the United States of America. The preliminaries of the 1802 Peace of Amiens were also negotiated at the château. [2]
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