1To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 31 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
...Agosto de 1807. hìze á este Gobíerno por me dio de V.S. una solemne protesta de todos los daños y perjuicios que han resultado y que pueden resultar á mì Rey y sus Vasallos, de la expedìcion de Miranda reclamando la satisfaccíon debída à un ínsulto que se hízo a su Soberania en estos Estados, pues se habia hecho presente a V.S. por el Marques de Casa Yrujo, y el General Turreau, que el punto...
2To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 7 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
en busca de la Expedición de Miranda y obligarla á los que la componian á regresar
3To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
...of the ship Leander,” had arrived in New York from Grenada two days earlier. Lewis had been indicted by the New York grand jury, along with Samuel G. Ogden, William Stephens Smith, William Armstrong, and Francisco de Miranda, in April 1806 (
4To James Madison from Nathan Sanford, 21 August 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
in Francisco de Miranda’s expedition against Spanish forces in Venezuela, should be brought to trial in New York.
5To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
had implicitly sanctioned Francisco de Miranda’s expedition, and to foster the belief, rumored to have originated with Jacob Wagner, that Jefferson had ordered the prosecution. In Sanford’s estimate, these circumstances rendered Smith’s acquittal a foregone conclusion. Postponing Samuel Ogden’s...
6To 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...
7To 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...
8To 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
9To 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.
10To 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