F. de Miranda
2To John Adams from Sebastián Francisco de Miranda, 24 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
Franciso de Miranda.
3To 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...
4To 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
5Charles 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 (
6Enclosure: 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
7From William Stephens Smith to John Quincy Adams, 29 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
(Signed) Francisco De Miranda(signed) Francisco De Miranda
8From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
F. De Miranda....and ninety-seven, in the city of Madrid in Spain, to prepare by measures the most efficacious, the independence of the Spanish American colonies; sent to France to our compatriots de Francisco de Miranda, ancient general of the army and our principal agent, and D. Pablo de Olavide, an ancient assistant of Seville, both equally named commissioners by the said Junta, not only for...
9From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 8 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
...personally. I pray you to be pleased to deliver it into the hands of his excellency the President; and as eventually some answer may be practicable in so interesting a business, General Francis de Miranda, our compatriot, and the principal agent of all Spanish America in union, a person extremely well known, and in particular to the honorable Mr. King, whose intervention is as to both...
10Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Brown, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Francisco de Miranda’s