11From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 15 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
. On
the British encouragement of a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which left American
shipping in the Atlantic Ocean vulnerable to seizure by the Algerines, see
12To George Washington from Joseph Brown, 2 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the British role in obtaining a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which left
American shipping in the Atlantic Ocean vulnerable to seizure by the Algerines, see
13To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 8 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the British role in obtaining a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which left
American shipping in the Atlantic Ocean vulnerable to seizure, see
14To George Washington from Reuben Harvey, 3 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the British role in obtaining a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which left
American shipping in the Atlantic Ocean vulnerable to seizure, see
15To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the British role in obtaining a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which left
American shipping in the Atlantic Ocean vulnerable to seizure, see
16To John Jay from Rufus King, 2 March 1794 (Jay Papers)
...peace treaty because the United States had failed for nine years to remove obstacles preventing British creditors from collecting on prewar debts. Pinckney had complained that Americans had received no warning that Britain facilitated a yearlong truce between Portugal and Algiers, and that, as a result, Portuguese cruisers no longer restrained the Algerine pirates from preying on American...
17To James Madison from George Nicholas, 9 February 1794 (Madison Papers)
...passed resolutions approving Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation. He asserted the views, widely held in Republican circles, that Federalists supported neutrality in hopes of gaining profitable trade with the belligerent powers and that Great Britain had arranged the truce between Portugal and Algiers in order to unleash the Algerine corsairs against American shipping (see
18To George Washington from David Humphreys, 31 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
...He began by saying, that, with the candour he had always professed to me, he had no difficulty in explaining the whole rise & progress of the transactions between Portugal and Algiers to this time. That, although Portugal is not engaged at all in the war with France, yet it is obliged by Treaty to furnish Contingents to England & Spain on the occasion of their being attacked...
19To James Madison from Alexander White, 19 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
..., indeed nothing but anxious thoughts can arise from every reference to Forreign Nations. Every Nation no doubt has a right to secure peace to herself, but the manner in which that between Portugal and Algiers was brought about is truly alarming. I still however hope that by proper exertions on our part the greatest of all Calamities War, may be prevented—and that the People awakened by...
20Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
...Church, 22 Oct., granting protection provided the
American vessels would assemble in numbers deserving of a convoy; and two letters from
Church to Jefferson, 22 Oct., covering the preceding letters, discussing reaction to
the treaty between Portugal and Algiers, and sending news of the European war. A
letter from ...Portugal and Algiers...