21To James Madison from George W. Erving, 25 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...why Carlos Martinez de Yrujo had been asked to leave the United States, the king had decided to demand one, along with an explanation of the U.S. government’s response to Francisco de Miranda’s expedition. It strained credulity to suppose, Cevallos wrote, that American officials could not have stopped the expedition before or even after it left New York; furthermore, Spain would have been...
22To James Madison from George W. Erving, 13 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
...and Yrujo’s banishment from Washington did not amount to an unreasonable delay; that the U.S. government had cut off communication with Yrujo precisely at the time that Francisco de Miranda was in New York preparing his expedition against Venezuela, although Cevallos denied making any connection between these two sets of circumstances; that if governments were allowed to be the sole...
23To James Madison from John Dawson, 5 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
A report that William Steuben Smith had been captured with part of Francisco de Miranda’s forces reached New York in early June 1806 but was contradicted a little over a month later (New York
24To James Madison from George W. Erving, 17 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
’s refusal to communicate further with Yrujo was suspicious, occurring just before the minister’s complaints about Francisco de Miranda’s expedition; and that the U.S. government should have communicated with Spain before forcing the marques de Casa Calvo to leave New Orleans.
25To James Madison from James Monroe, 9 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
In early May 1806 U.S. newspapers were rife with reports and speculations that Francisco de Miranda’s expedition, perhaps with British support, had sailed for Venezuela, landed there, and engaged in hostilities; see, for example, the
26To James Madison from John Armstrong, 1 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
...and Armstrong’s defense of his conduct. The crux of the exchange was Bowdoin’s assertion and Armstrong’s denial that the former should be included in discussions with the French government and the Spanish ambassador in Paris regarding Francisco de Miranda’s expedition against Venezuela in the
27From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
witnesses in the upcoming trials of William Stephens Smith and Samuel G. Ogden for violation of the Neutrality Act in having financed and allowed Francisco de Miranda’s expedition against Venezuela to arm and leave from New York. On 8 July 1806 Francisco de Miranda
28From William Stephens Smith to John Quincy Adams, 29 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
(Signed) Francisco De Miranda(signed) Francisco De Miranda
29To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
For Francisco de Miranda’s 1806 expedition against the coast of Venezuela, see Karen Racine, Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution
30To James Madison from Francisco de Miranda, 22 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Francisco de Miranda.