She was prompt and decided in her declarations that our demands on Spain for French spoliations carried into Spanish ports were included in the settlement between the United States and France.
Thomas Jefferson: “She was prompt and decided in her declarations that our demands on Spain for French spoliations carried into Spanish…”
On the recordDecember 5, 1805
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