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17: 212:, especially rural settlers. He is known to have attracted sixty-six officers, but claimed to have raised more than 2,000 volunteers. Like Clark, Tate's commission was rescinded by Fauchet. South Carolina threatened to arrest Tate for treason, and he fled to France in 1795, where he was given command of the 110:
that anyone who served with the French Legion would be granted 1,000 to 3,000 acres of conquered lands, depending on the years of service; and all plunder would be divided. Clark was able to raise two infantry regiments, and was prepared to launch his campaign when it was cancelled by another French
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to stop the expedition. Wayne sent a company of infantry and some artillery to Fort Massac in May after receiving word that Spain had sent five gunboats up the Mississippi to the Ohio River. The French government revoked the commissions granted to the Americans for the war against Spain. By July,
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officially protested the Legion's violation of U.S. neutrality, but suggested that the campaign would be in the best interests of the United States. Clark advertised in the
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the French Revolutionary Legion had dispersed. Clark's planned campaign collapsed, and he was unable to convince the French to reimburse him for his expenses.
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in the Armies of France and Commander-in-chief of the French Revolutionary Legion on the Mississippi River". Clark began to organize a campaign to seize
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France issued a new commission to Clark in 1796. The plan to invade Louisiana was revisited in 1798, but failed to yield any results. The
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This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794
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was angered by GenĂȘt's lack of diplomatic tact, and demanded his recall in December 1793. In February 1794, a new ambassador from France,
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Turner, Frederick Jackson (January 1905). "The Policy of France toward the Mississippi Valley in the Period of Washington and Adams".
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to lead this force. Tate's deputy commander was Stephen Drayton, the personal secretary to Governor
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Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778–1783, and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark
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Nationalizing France's Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831
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to establish a blockade at New Orleans. Clark won the tacit support of Kentucky governor
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from Spain and then assist Clark in the invasion of Louisiana. He commissioned
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In October 1793, a similar force was raised in South Carolina. French Consul
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on March 24 which forbid Americans from invading Spain. On March 31,
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Volunteer units and formations of the French Revolutionary Wars
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and two French artillery officers to Kentucky and commissioned
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in 1793. Its purpose was to reassert French influence in the
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was an American mercenary force commissioned by leaders of
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during the 1797 invasion of Britain that ended with the
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George Rogers Clark
James Barton Longacre
Revolutionary France
North American interior
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Edmond-Charles GenĂȘt
André Michaux
George Rogers Clark
Major General
New Madrid
St. Louis
Natchez
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Isaac Shelby
Thomas Jefferson
Centinel of the Northwest Territory
George Washington
Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet
Proclamation of Neutrality
Secretary of War
Henry Knox
Anthony Wayne
Fort Massac
James Wilkinson
Legion of the United States
Ohio River
Carondelet

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