FRANCE -- DIPLOMACY]. An extensive series of confidential reports by unidentified French agents in the United States, reporting on American political and military affairs, comprising 38 manuscript documents, 1804 - 1842. Together approximately 250 pages, 4to, housed in 20 folders (documents tipped into folders, some leaves laid down), over 60,000 words .
FRANCE -- DIPLOMACY]. An extensive series of confidential reports by unidentified French agents in the United States, reporting on American political and military affairs, comprising 38 manuscript documents, 1804 - 1842. Together approximately 250 pages, 4to, housed in 20 folders (documents tipped into folders, some leaves laid down), over 60,000 words . INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON THE CHANGING AMERICAN POLITICAL AND MILITARY SCENE. An important series of reports, penned in neat diplomatic script, many originating in Philadelphia, apparently compiled by French agents for the benefit of the foreign ministry in Paris. It comprises original observations and analysis of American affairs and transcriptions from the U.S. press on major political events and policies. The reports from May 1804 discuss the capture of the French schooner l'Africaine in Charleston Harbor, and the tumultuous situation in Haiti. Events there were of particular concern in Paris. The result of the island's former slaves against their French colonial masters was in its final, bloody phase. Reports from the years just after the War of 1812 assess America's military strength (one report contains a chart of available U.S. military units and their locations), the likelihood of war between the U.S. and Spain, the land purchases of the former Spanish monarch in the American southwest and developments in the revolutionary movements in South America. One report details Petion's assistance to Bolivar. A detailed report monitors a potential plot to liberate Napoleon from St. Helena. Later reports in the early 1840s recount key political conflicts such as the tariff fights, the battle over the Bank of the United States, the effects of the depression of 1837, and the state of Mississippi's battles with the Rothschild bank in Paris. (38)
FRANCE -- DIPLOMACY]. An extensive series of confidential reports by unidentified French agents in the United States, reporting on American political and military affairs, comprising 38 manuscript documents, 1804 - 1842. Together approximately 250 pages, 4to, housed in 20 folders (documents tipped into folders, some leaves laid down), over 60,000 words .
FRANCE -- DIPLOMACY]. An extensive series of confidential reports by unidentified French agents in the United States, reporting on American political and military affairs, comprising 38 manuscript documents, 1804 - 1842. Together approximately 250 pages, 4to, housed in 20 folders (documents tipped into folders, some leaves laid down), over 60,000 words . INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON THE CHANGING AMERICAN POLITICAL AND MILITARY SCENE. An important series of reports, penned in neat diplomatic script, many originating in Philadelphia, apparently compiled by French agents for the benefit of the foreign ministry in Paris. It comprises original observations and analysis of American affairs and transcriptions from the U.S. press on major political events and policies. The reports from May 1804 discuss the capture of the French schooner l'Africaine in Charleston Harbor, and the tumultuous situation in Haiti. Events there were of particular concern in Paris. The result of the island's former slaves against their French colonial masters was in its final, bloody phase. Reports from the years just after the War of 1812 assess America's military strength (one report contains a chart of available U.S. military units and their locations), the likelihood of war between the U.S. and Spain, the land purchases of the former Spanish monarch in the American southwest and developments in the revolutionary movements in South America. One report details Petion's assistance to Bolivar. A detailed report monitors a potential plot to liberate Napoleon from St. Helena. Later reports in the early 1840s recount key political conflicts such as the tariff fights, the battle over the Bank of the United States, the effects of the depression of 1837, and the state of Mississippi's battles with the Rothschild bank in Paris. (38)
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