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3183. FRANCE, Sympathy with.—[continued].

The [French forces] have lately sustained some severe checks.
* * * Their defeats are as sensibly felt
at Philadelphia as at Paris, and I foresee we
are to have a trying campaign of it.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iii, 549. Ford ed., vi, 240.
(Pa., May. 1793)