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Neutrality.
A movement in Europe, known as the Armed neutrality, threatened to seriously cripple the power of Great Britain and incidentally aid the Americans in their struggle for independence.
It was a league of the leading nations of Europe against the pretensions of Great Britain as Mistress of the seas.
It was conceived in the summer of 1778, when British cruisers seized American vessels in the Baltic Sea engaged in commerce with Russia.
The latter nation was then assuming colossal proportions, and all the others courted the friendship of its empress, Catharine II., who was able and powerful.
Great Britain tried to induce her to become an ally against France.
Catharine coquetted a long time with King George, while her sympathies were with Sweden, Denmark, and Holland.
Their neutral ships were continually interfered with by British sea-rovers, whose acts were justified by the British government.
France had gained the good — will of the Northern powers by a proclamatio
July, 1778 AD (search for this): entry neutrality
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1807 AD (search for this): entry neutrality
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