Nootka Sound Crisis
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- Anonymous (Thomas Paine)
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Notes
Placeholder title. From London, Thomas Paine sent a pamphlet to La Fayette on the Nootka Sound Crisis, recommending an offensive in the English Channel by the combined French and Spanish fleets. La Fayette had this translated and published anonymously as indicated in letters he wrote to William Short (Jefferson's replacement as US ambassador in France) during June 1790. Pamphlet is missing from the Short archives. See H. W. Landin, 'Some letters of Thomas Paine and William Short on the Nootka Sound Crisis' (Journal of Modern History, XII 1941) and Louis Gottschalk & Margaret Maddox, Lafayette in the American Revolution: From the October Days through the Federation (University Chicago Press, 1973), 291, citing Davenport, ed. Gouverneur Morris Diary, I: 572-573.