What Was The Relationship Between France During And After The American Revolution
Marko Ortiz Charpilloz
8A
Mr.Elinghous
The relations between France and the United States During and after the war
During the American revolution o1775 insert date America’s biggest ally was France. During and after the war, both nations consistently helped each other but also fought with one another. Examples of these such events are the x,y,z affaire as is also the Quasi war. The relationship in between these two nations was howether also very fragile during the French revolution in which Britain almost became allies with America in order to defeat the French. Major figure heads in the negotiations where, Benjamin franklin of the American side as well as John jay and many others, and on the French side Compt de Vergennes as well as the renowned …show more content…
They first decided to settle things with France. So they sent out three representatives to meet with the French representative ( Marquis Talleyrand ). When the American representatives arrived in Paris, they discovered that the Marquis would not meet with them and instead sent three representatives which where later named representative x,y and z. The Americans were outraged when they heard this and demanded to speak with Talleyrand, they were informed that the only way to speak with him would be, to give France a low interest loan, a bribe to Talleyrand and that they would compensate their own ships for the damage done by the French. The Americans refused and where understandably angry at Talleyrand. When he realized that they denied his terms, he threatened to invade America if they did not accept his terms. So the representatives left and both countries started to prepare for war. When Britain heard of this, they offered America an alliance to defeat the common enemy, France. This lead to a huge division in the people, one side said that they wanted the war to be avoided and stay allies with France because after all, they are the reason that they were independent from Britain. The other half of the population said that they should allies with Britain because even though they did fight for independence, that they were still all technically British and that they should side with them because of ancestry. When Talleyrand realized how badly he messed up, he begged the government to reopen negotiations with America, when the word got across, and the senate quickly responded and sent a new representative. While that was happening, Napoleon took power and he was not so much interested in peace as he was in obtaining Louisiana back. So Britain offered again saying that it was time to finally exterminate them, but John Adams (president) refused as he believed that the best path was to
8A
Mr.Elinghous
The relations between France and the United States During and after the war
During the American revolution o1775 insert date America’s biggest ally was France. During and after the war, both nations consistently helped each other but also fought with one another. Examples of these such events are the x,y,z affaire as is also the Quasi war. The relationship in between these two nations was howether also very fragile during the French revolution in which Britain almost became allies with America in order to defeat the French. Major figure heads in the negotiations where, Benjamin franklin of the American side as well as John jay and many others, and on the French side Compt de Vergennes as well as the renowned …show more content…
They first decided to settle things with France. So they sent out three representatives to meet with the French representative ( Marquis Talleyrand ). When the American representatives arrived in Paris, they discovered that the Marquis would not meet with them and instead sent three representatives which where later named representative x,y and z. The Americans were outraged when they heard this and demanded to speak with Talleyrand, they were informed that the only way to speak with him would be, to give France a low interest loan, a bribe to Talleyrand and that they would compensate their own ships for the damage done by the French. The Americans refused and where understandably angry at Talleyrand. When he realized that they denied his terms, he threatened to invade America if they did not accept his terms. So the representatives left and both countries started to prepare for war. When Britain heard of this, they offered America an alliance to defeat the common enemy, France. This lead to a huge division in the people, one side said that they wanted the war to be avoided and stay allies with France because after all, they are the reason that they were independent from Britain. The other half of the population said that they should allies with Britain because even though they did fight for independence, that they were still all technically British and that they should side with them because of ancestry. When Talleyrand realized how badly he messed up, he begged the government to reopen negotiations with America, when the word got across, and the senate quickly responded and sent a new representative. While that was happening, Napoleon took power and he was not so much interested in peace as he was in obtaining Louisiana back. So Britain offered again saying that it was time to finally exterminate them, but John Adams (president) refused as he believed that the best path was to