1To John Adams from William Stephens Smith, 4 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
left London on 9 Aug., bound for Harwich to take passage to Hellevoetsluis, where he arrived on the 11th. He traveled in company with Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), a Venezuelan soldier and partisan of Latin-American independence whom
2To John Adams from George Walton, 23 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
...provinces.” Although press reports exaggerated several scenarios of possible European aggression, there was a kernel of truth to some of the accounts. William Pitt, for example, met secretly with Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda to discuss the possibility of Britain’s gaining control over Spain’s colonial possessions, including Cuba, Florida, and portions of the...
3Enclosure: To John Adams, 27 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
...Dorchester in Quebec in May 1790 that no direct attacks would likely be mounted from British territory. Instead, the British administration made naval preparations while pursuing the possibility of supporting the operations of such dissident Spanish colonists as Francisco de Miranda and such renegades as William Bowles (see
4Charles Adams to John Adams, 19–20 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
Gen. Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816) was born in Venezuela. He had served with the French in the American Revolution and now led a portion of their army alongside Dumouriez. The French had occupied Antwerp in December (
5To John Adams from Sebastián Francisco de Miranda, 24 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
Franciso de Miranda.
F. de Miranda