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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: MSI who wrote (16657)11/5/2002 5:44:55 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Bullshit. In addition to the Barbary war Neo mentioned, the US was in a quasi naval war with France from 1797 to 1800. That's TWO of your founding fathers who opposed such shenanigans- -Washington and Jefferson.

Sorry about that.

1797 XYZ Affair ­ results in an undeclared naval war (quasi-war) with France, and sharp rise in anti-French sentiment.
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XYZ Affair--French demands for a bribe before negotiating with Americans so angered citizens that they called for war. Congress armed privateers, commissioned an army, and ordered new ships built

1) Naval war with France raged for two years, with 90 French ships captured.

2) France agreed to American terms in the Convention of 1800.
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The Quasi War with France (1798-1800). The XYZ affair caused war fever to sweep the country. Prominent Republicans were closely watched for pro-French sentiment. Conservatives saw the French Revolution as a menace to property and stability. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts reveal the superpatriotism and national paranoia of the time. In this climate, Congress passes a series of measures supporting a limited naval war with France: it denounced the 1778 alliance as invalid; Congress embargoed trade with France, barred French ships from U.S. ports, and permitted the navy and armed privateers to seize armed French vessels on the high seas--a total of 85 French prizes were seized. When Napoleon Bonbaparte overthrew the Directory in 1799 he sought peace with the U.S., and the Convention of 1800 officially ended both the Quasi War and the 1778 Franco-American alliance.
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