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The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1935) Brown, John L. "Revolution and the Muse: the American War of Independence in Contemporary French Poetry." William and Mary Quarterly 1984 41(4): 592–614. ISSN 0043-5597 JSTOR 1919155 doi:10.2307/1919155; Brecher, Frank W. Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance.
The French Forces in America, 1780–1783. Greenwood, 1977. 188 pp. Lint, Gregg L. "John Adams on the Drafting of the Treaty Plan of 1776," Diplomatic History 2 (1978): 313–20. Perkins, James Breck. France in the American Revolution (1911) full text online; Pritchard, James. "French Strategy and the American Revolution: a Reappraisal."
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 ...
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.
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.
In the wake of the 1789 French Revolution, relations between the new French Republic and U.S. federal government, originally friendly, became strained.In 1792, France and the rest of Europe went to war, a conflict in which President George Washington declared American neutrality. [1]
After the French Revolution, the U.S. government refused to pay debts owed to France, arguing that they were owed to the ancien régime, which no longer existed. The infuriated government of the French First Republic responded by ordering the seizure of American merchantmen bound for British ports to collect the debts.
The key figure in initial foreign reaction to the French Revolution was Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, brother of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Leopold had initially looked on the Revolution with equanimity, but became more disturbed as the Revolution became more radical, although he still hoped to avoid war.