History of the United States of America, Volume 9 (of 9) : $b During the second administration of James MadisonAdams, Henry
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History of the United States of America, Volume 9 (of 9) : $b During the second administration of James Madison
Adams, Henry
United States -- History -- 1801-1809; United States -- History -- 1809-1817
Napoleon, i. 334;
and Talleyrand, 357, 359;
restores peace in Europe, 360, 363, 370, 373, 374, 395;
obtains retrocession of Louisiana, 363–370;
his anger with Godoy, 373–375;
makes peace with England, 374;
parallelism with Louverture, 383, 387, 388;
attacks Louverture, 390;
his explanations to the British Government, 391;
his letter to Louverture, 392, 393;
his instructions to Leclerc, 397, 398;
orders the occupation of Louisiana, 399, 400;
attempts to obtain Florida, 402;
Jefferson’s messages to, 404, 410, 411, 413, 443;
his account of his miscarriage at St. Domingo, 416;
fears a war with the United States, ii. 2;
abandons his colonial system, 14 _et seq._;
scene with Lord Whitworth, 19;
reveals his determination to cede Louisiana, 25–28;
angry scene with his brothers, 34 _et seq._;
his _projet_ of a secret convention respecting Louisiana, 40;
objects to the payment of claims, 51;
his inducement to sell Louisiana, 52;
his conduct toward Spain, 56;
his avowal as to the sale of Louisiana, 61;
his reasons for betraying Charles IV., 63;
for selling Louisiana, 63 _et seq._;
repudiates drafts on the public Treasury, 270;
prepares for a descent on England, 291;
weary of Talleyrand, 310, 312;
Jefferson’s language about, 348, 353, 381;
his irritation at Jerome’s marriage, 379;
his intervention in Monroe’s Spanish negotiation, iii. 26, 29,
30, 32, 41, 82;
not influenced by corruption of his subordinates, 42;
begins war with Austria and Russia, 73, 76, 77, 103;
forbids trade with St. Domingo, 89;
captures Ulm and enters Vienna, 106, 370;
returns to Paris, 371;
his financial measures in 1806, 372–375;
defeats Talleyrand’s plan for a settlement between Spain and the
United States, 383;
wins the battle of Jena, 388;
issues the Decree of Berlin, 389;
makes the treaty of Tilsit, iv. 62, 105;
attacks Portugal and Denmark, 106;
enforces his Berlin Decree against the United States, 109, 110;
Armstrong’s story about his attitude toward Florida, 114;
orders his armies into Spain, 117;
his proposed division of Portugal, 119;
offers Lucien the crown of Spain, 124;
issues the Decree of Milan, 126;
treats the United States as at war with England, 221, 292, 295,
312;
seizes the Spanish Court, 298;
crowns Joseph King of Spain, 300;
his Spanish plan for conquering England, 303;
issues the Bayonne Decree, 304;
his Spanish campaign, v. 22–28;
his severity toward American commerce, 30–32;
withholds Florida, 32, 33;
his causes for rupture with the United States, 39, 40;
his war with Austria in 1809, 106, 134;
learns the repeal of the embargo and of the British Orders, 136;
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