Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in chapter 13, page 255 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10:
...ion of the more humane maritime code, which protected the neutral flag everywhere on the great deep.
In the year 1646, these principles were embodied in a commercial treaty between the republic and France .
When Cromwell was protector, when Milton was Latin secretary, the rights of neutrals found their just place in the treaties of England, in
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