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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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ntinued to be the rule of Great Britain for a little more than eighty years. Meantime Vergennes, on the twelfth of February, Feb. 12. forwarded the draft of a convention which yielded to Spain all that she required, except that its fourth article maintained the independence of the United States. In respect to this, he wrote, our engagements are precise, and it is not possible for us to retract them. Spain must share them, if she makes common cause with us. Vergennes to Montmorin, 12 Feb., 1779. Yet the article was persistently cavilled at, as in itself useless, and misplaced in a treaty of France with Spain; and it was remarked with ill-humor how precisely the treaty stipulated, that arms should not be laid down till American independence should be obtained, while it offered only a vague promise of every effort to procure the objects in which Spain was interested. Efface the difference, answered Montmorin, and employ the same expressions for both stipulations. The Spanish mi