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  2. Franco-American alliance - Wikipedia

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    The Franco-American alliance was the 1778 alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States during the American Revolutionary War.Formalized in the 1778 Treaty of Alliance, it was a military pact in which the French provided many supplies for the Americans.

  3. Jacobin (politics) - Wikipedia

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    Early Federalist-leaning American newspapers during the French Revolution referred to the Democratic-Republican party as the "Jacobin Party". [76] The most notable examples are the Gazette of the United States , published in Philadelphia, and the Delaware and Eastern-Shore Advertiser , published in Wilmington, during the elections of 1800.

  4. France in the American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    The French Army in the American War of Independence Osprey; 1991. Corwin, Edward S. French Policy and the American Alliance of 1778 Archon Books; 1962. Dull, Jonathan R. A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution; Yale U. Press, 1985. Dull, Jonathan R. (1975). The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774 ...

  5. Proclamation of Neutrality - Wikipedia

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    By siding with France the United States would have left itself open to attacks within American borders by the governments of Great Britain and Spain stirring up "numerous Indian tribes" influenced by these two governments. Thomas Jefferson (having read several of the "Pacificus" essays) encouraged James Madison to reply. Madison was initially ...

  6. Reactionary - Wikipedia

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    "Reactionary" derives from the French word réactionnaire (a late 18th-century coinage based on the word réaction, "reaction") and "conservative" from conservateur, identifying monarchist parliamentarians opposed to the revolution. [9] In this French usage, reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state ...

  7. France–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    The Statue of Liberty is a gift from the French people to the American people in memory of the United States Declaration of Independence.. New France (French: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France beginning with exploration in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

  8. History of U.S. foreign policy, 1776–1801 - Wikipedia

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    With the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the French Revolution erupted. The American public, remembering the aid provided by the French during the Revolutionary War, was largely enthusiastic, and hoped for democratic reforms that would solidify the existing Franco-American alliance and transform France into a republican ally against ...

  9. A Discourse on the Love of Our Country - Wikipedia

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    Price compared the French Revolution to that event, much as he had previously defended the American Revolution, despite being a loyal subject living in the country at war against it. [1] Price starts out by establishing that he believes in patriotism, in love of one's own country.