 | Thomas Hodgins - Canada - 1900 - 124 pages
...: " I have the honour of returnFrench ing herewith the map Your Excellency sent me yes11118 terday. I have marked with a strong Red Line, according to...between the British and American Plenipotentiaries." * The map which accompanied this letter was found among several thousands in the Archives, with a strongly... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 324 pages
...de Vergennes: "PASBY, December 6, 1782. Sir, — I have the honor of returning herewith the шар your Excellency sent me yesterday. I have marked with...American Plenipotentiaries. With great respect, I am, etc., B. FRANKLIN." Dr. Bryce hastily declares that the map in question was a copy of the one referred... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...had belonged to Franklin, and in which Franklin himself had marked with a strong red line, in 1782, the limits of the United States, ' as settled in the...between the British and American plenipotentiaries.' The line was exactly the line contended for by Great Britain ; but the knowledge of the existence of... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 830 pages
...French foreign minister. The letter mentioned a map that had "a strong red line" drawn on it, showing the "limits of the United States as settled in the preliminaries between the British & American plenipotentiaries." Sparks immediately began searching for the map in the well-indexed catalog... | |
 | Thomas Coffin Amory - History - 1859 - 434 pages
...Vergennes the following note, found by President Sparks, sixty years afterwards, in the French archives : " I have the honor of returning herewith the map your...the preliminaries between the British and American plenipotentiaries.77 Pursuing further his researches, Mr. Sparks found, among the sixty thousand maps... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 480 pages
...yesterday. I have marked with a strong red line, according to your desire, the limits of the thirteen United States, as settled in the preliminaries between...American plenipotentiaries. With great respect, I am, sir, your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, B FRANKLIN. MCXXXII TO ROBERT MORRIS... | |
 | 1843 - 440 pages
...excellency sent me yesterday. I have marked with as(ron°- red fine, according to your desire, tlie limits of the United States, as settled in the preliminaries...between the British and American plenipotentiaries. "I am with great respect, &c. B. FRAXKLIJJ." "Mr. Sparks, upon finding this letter, immediately hies... | |
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SIR ; I have the honor of returning herewith the map your Excellency sent me yesterday. I have marked with a strong red line, according to your desire, the limits of the United States, as settled in the preliminaries between the British and American plenipotentiaries. 
