Illicit French Privateers Flouting U.S. Authority to Be Stripped of Military Equipment If Entering U.S. Ports Again
Document 1794Explains that the government has suffered much embarrassment from illicit French privateers running from one American port to the next, effectively getting the asylum that was to be denied to them because of their illegality. Transmits the president's new order, that all these privateers be informed that if they enter American ports again they will be stripped of all their military equipment; asks that Huntington enforce this rule in Connecticut.
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Letter Signed
Description
Explains that the government has suffered much embarrassment from illicit French privateers running from one American port to the next, effectively getting the asylum that was to be denied to them because of their illegality. Transmits the president's new order, that all these privateers be informed that if they enter American ports again they will be stripped of all their military equipment; asks that Huntington enforce this rule in Connecticut.
Date
08/18/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Collection
Document number
1794081800101
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Notable persons
Sam Huntington
Alexander Hamilton
Governor Connecticut
Secretary of Treasury
French
President of United States
George Washington
foreign powers
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Connecticut
Philadelphia
port
district
Notable items
French privateers
military equipment
asylum
connivance
evasion
bloodshed
force
resolution