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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Opinions and Beliefs
Netherlands
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loan negotiations in, “a Man in the midst of the Ocean negotiating for his Life among a School of Sharks”2
ability to maintain war effort1
PJA10
achievement of Dutch recognition of U.S. a “Signal Tryumph”1
PJA12
Amsterdam's preoccupation with removal of Duke of Brunswick1
PJA12
Amsterdam's support for U.S.1
PJA12
as model for Amer. quest for liberty1
PJA10
Battle of the Dogger Bank1
PJA12
Capellen van de Marsch's speech favoring U.S. recognition1
PJA12
court of1
PJA13
Dutch-Amer. Treaty1
PJA13
Dutch anglomanes1
PJA11
Dutch language is “the Sublimest . . . of Europe, if we are to believe the People of the Netherlands, who alone understand it”1
PJA12
Dutch need to redeem themselves1
PJA12
effect of Amsterdam's actions on the prosecution of the Anglo-Dutch war1
PJA11
effect of Austrian abrogation of Barrier Treaty on1
PJA12
English Church's influence at The Hague1
PJA13
exclusive trade privileges for1
PJA09
French policy toward1
PJA12
Friesland's recognition of U.S.1
PJA13
“If I ever did any good since I was born, it was stirring up the pure Minds of the Dutchmen, and setting the old Batavian Spirit in motion, after having slept so long”1
PJA11
ignorance of U.S.1
PJA10
“I have been in the most curious Country, among the most incomprehensible People and under the most singular Constitution of Government in the World”1
PJA11
influence of Howe's Narrative in1
PJA10
instructions to Dutch privateers as recognition of U.S.1
PJA11
interest rates in1
PJA13
intrigues against him in1
PJA12
“I shall love the Dutch Nation, till I die”1
PJA13
“I thank God, he has enabled me to plant the Standard of the United States at the Hague, where it will wave forever”1
PJA13
Latin toast at meeting of Dutch Patriots1
PJA13
La Vauguyon's visit to Amsterdam1
PJA12
neutrality as true system of1
PJA12
newspaper printers and editors in1
PJA13
on Llano's comments on JA's achievement in1
PJA12
on Vergennes' view of JA's success in1
PJA12
opposition to recognition of U.S. in1
PJA13
policy of: “If it is Policy at all, it is so profound as to be perfectly incomprehensible”1
PJA11
potential losses for1
PJA11
pro-British party in1
PJA10
recognition of U.S.1
PJA11
recommends U.S. end negotiations if delays continue1
PJA12
relations with England1
PJA07
relations with France1
PJA13
reliability of Patriots' advice1
PJA12
role in the “Revolution which has taken Place” in1
PJA12
stockjobbers in1
PJA10
“The Constitution of Government is so complicated and whimsical a thing, and the Temper and Character of the Nation so peculiar, that this is considered every where as the most difficult Embassy in Europe”1
PJA12
“There is an Appetite here, for American Trade, as ravenous as that of a shark for his Prey”1
PJA11
unlikelihood of treaty in midst of Anglo-Dutch war1
PJA10
unpreparedness in “when War is unwillingly made, every thing is not done”1
PJA13
visit of Joseph II1
PJA11
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