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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berlin decree, the. (search)
, officially declared that the Berlin and Milan decrees had been revoked, and would be inoperative after Nov. 1, it being understood that, in consequence of that revocation. the English should revoke the Orders in Council. Having faith in these declarations, the President issued a proclamation on Nov. 2, announcing this revocation of the French decrees and declaring the discontinuance, on the part of the United States, of all commercial restrictions in relation to France. But the French were playing false, and England suspected it, for she had many reasons for doubting Gallic faith. So had the Americans, but still they were willing to trust France once again. They were deceived; the decrees were not revoked, and a later one, issued at Rambouillet, was only suspended. The English refused to rescind on the faith of only a letter by the French minister; and this attempt on the part of the Americans to secure peace and justice was futile. See embargo act, first; orders in council.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Perrin du Lac, Francois Marie 1766-1824 (search)
Perrin du Lac, Francois Marie 1766-1824 Traveller; born in Chaux-de-Fonds, France, in 1766; came to the United States in 1791, and travelled through Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other sections; returned to France in 1803. He wrote Journey in the two Louisianas, and among the savage Nations of Missouri, through the United States. Ohio, and the border provinces, in 1801, 1802, and 1803, with a sketch of the manners, practices, character, and the religious customs and Civil laws of the people of the various regions. He died in Rambouillet, France, July 22, 1824.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rambouillet decree. (search)
Rambouillet decree. Professing to be indignant at what seemed to be partiality shown to England by the Americans in their restrictive acts, Napoleon caused the seizure and confiscation of many American vessels and their cargoes. John Armstrong, then United States minister to France, remonstrated, and when he learned that several vessels were to be sold, he offered to the French government a vigorous protest, in which he recapitulated the many aggressions which American commerce had suffered from French cruisers. This remonstrance was answered by a decree framed at Rambouillet March 23, 1810, but not issued until May 1, that ordered the sale of 132 American vessels which had been seized, worth, with their cargoes, $8,000,000, the proceeds to be placed in the French military chest. It also ordered that all American vessels which should enter French ports, or ports occupied by French troops, should be seized and sequestered.