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To: Cheburashka
Yes. Jefferson was something of the Ron Paul of his day. He thought a bunch of wimpy little gunboats would suffice to protect the U.S.

When people criticize Adams for the Alien & Sedition Acts, they do not realize what the country was up against. There was a world war going on between Britain and revolutionary fascist France. There were fools in America who were willing to be tools of the French.

Adams was a patriot and one of the greatest of the Founders. Although Jefferson had allowed his supporters to slander Adams, in their old age, the two great men became friends.

28 posted on 07/02/2011 7:42:00 PM PDT by hellbender
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To: hellbender
Actually Napoleon was very pro-American. His father had lived here a while.

In the end most of his relatives emigrated to the same place in New York, but his surviving Old Guard moved to Gallipolis and environs in what is now Southern Ohio.

I place the failure of the French Revolution in the laps of the Revolutionaries themselves, not Napoleon. He was just the first of a series of erstwhile American allies who ruled unruly and very dangerous nations through dictatorship.

Although we usually think of the USA having bought Louisiana from Napoleon, the deal was carefully monitored by Spanish investors who had quite a bit tied up in coastal Louisiana and facilities along the Mississippi River.

They weren't simply betrayed by Napoleon and in the end did well by the deal except that they didn't like the way the lines were drawn.

39 posted on 07/02/2011 8:02:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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