In 1797, President Adams sends a peace commission to France to restore relations. The French government refuses any official meetings until the commissioners pay bribes to top officials. When word gets back to America, it begins calls for a war with France.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The XYZ Affair, 1797-1798, by Harold Vaughn.
Online Recommendation of the Week: America and France. The intire [sic] message of the president of the United States, to both houses of Congress: covering the full powers to, and dispatches from, the envoys extraordinary of the United States, to the French Republic, https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_america-and-france-the-_1798
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