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used by the Continental Congress and Benjamin Franklin for secret correspondence with agents in Europe. It was a substitution code based on a prose passage of 682 characters, so that a given character could be replaced by more than one number.
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In 1776, Dumas contacted officials in Holland, Spain and France seeking trade in badly needed materials for the United States. This led to beneficial trade during the revolution. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the
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became minister plenipotentiary to Holland, Dumas acted as his secretary and translator. When Adams went to
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when the latter was in Holland at the beginning of the American Revolution, and when Franklin chaired the
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for a time, and moved to the Netherlands around 1750. He befriended
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Dumas planted stories favorable to the United States in the
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Dumas was influenced by the works of international lawyer
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Ambassadors of the United States to the Netherlands
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Charles W.F. Dumas
man of letters
Dutch Republic
American Revolution
Ansbach
French
Switzerland
Benjamin Franklin
Committee of correspondence
John Adams
Paris
cipher
Gazette de Leyde
Leiden
Netherlands
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Emer de Vattel
ISBN
0-8160-2107-4
Wharton, Francis (editor) "The revolutionary correspondence of the United States." Volume 1, 1889. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.diplomatic pages 603-604.Retrieved December 25, 2008
"Intelligence techniques"
the original
ISBN
0-19-510098-0
ISBN
978-0-19-510098-3
"Commerce and Diplomacy: The First Year of American Foreign Policy 1775-1776"
cite web
link
"Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter D"

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