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English text of the treaty from Yale's Lillian Goldman Law Library; The Moroccan-American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, [28 June 1786]", Founders Online, National Archives "Long-time friends: a history of early U.S.-Moroccan relations 1777-1787" by Sherrill B. Wells, Embassy of the United States, Rabat, Morocco
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1786 – Treaty of Friendship – with Morocco formally recognizing their 1777 recognition of the United States; oldest unbroken U.S. treaty 1794 – Treaty of Canandaigua (Pickering Treaty) – negotiated by Pickering for George Washington with Red Jacket , Cornplanter , Handsome Lake , and fifty other Iroquois leaders by which they were ...
Relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America date back to the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and specifically since 1777 when the sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah became the first monarch to help the United States. Morocco remains one of America's oldest and closest allies in North Africa, a status affirmed by ...
The Moroccan seizure of the Betsey was an incident in which Moroccan naval forces captured the Philadelphia merchant ship Betsey on October 11, 1784. After delays by the United States government to sign a treaty, the Sultan of Morocco Mohammed bin Abdallah ordered the capture of the ship.
Ambassador Admiral Abdelkader Perez, 1723–1737. One of the high points of these contacts occurred in 1720–21, when English ambassadors John Windus and Commodore Hon. Charles Stewart visited Morocco. They succeeded in signing a diplomatic treaty with Morocco for the first time, and returned home with 296 released British slaves. [28]
Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship or Treaty of Marrakesh, a 1777 inclusion of the US in a list of countries to which Morocco's ports were open; Marrakesh Agreement, a 1994 treaty establishing the World Trade Organization; Marrakesh VIP Treaty, a 2013 copyright treaty on rights of users with visual impairments and print disabilities
The first property acquired abroad by the United States government, it housed the United States Legation and Consulate for 140 years, the longest period any building abroad has been occupied as a United States diplomatic post. [citation needed] It is symbolic of the 1786 Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, which is still in force today ...