The aggression thus begun has been continued on the part of the British commanders by remaining within our waters in defiance of the authority of the country, by habitual violations of its jurisdiction, and at length by putting to death one of the persons whom they had forcibly taken from on board the Chesapeake.
Jefferson describes ongoing British aggression and its impact on American sovereignty.
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I have thought that the friendly dispositions of such a power might be advantageously cherished by a mission which should manifest our willingness to meet his good will.
The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.
hereby commanding such insurgents and all concerned in such combination instantly and without delay to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes
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