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Was Washington wrong or right

was he right to ignore the french after all they've done in the Revolutionary war? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.113.48.10 (talk) 19:26, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jefferson resigns

The claim that Jefferson resigned over this proclamation is not accurate. He stayed on as Secretary of State long after this. Reference is needed for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:E:2680:3CD:7CB5:ECFA:C047:309 (talk) 21:53, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pro-Monarchy POV

This article implies that the war was started by revolutionary France. But the War of the First Coalition was started by European monarchies in support of King Louis, to prevent popular uprisings from sympathizers in their own lands.

This article is factually misleading if not inaccurate, and broadly supports the Non-Neutral Hamiltonian-Federalist (and by now, broadly American) POV that its declaration of "neutrality" in this case was something other than a support of the status quo European monarchies trying to put down a democratic revolution in France.

[in support of its hypocritical and now traditional practice of supporting dictatorships and autocracies abroad while claiming to be a "city on a hill" and light of democracy.] Although those were my own words, the research can be done and reliable commentators on this can be quoted. The Girondist POV of Ambassador Genet ought to be presented in the lede, along with the reply of Madison / Helvidius speaking for the Democratic-Republicans in support of revolutionary France, and the possibility considered that America's declaration was a betrayal of the Treaty of Alliance (1778) with France, and of its own democratic principles. Regards, Jaredscribe (talk) 23:20, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

None of these wikilinks or background history was in the article. This bias toward 1793 "Recentism" suggests that wikipedia's well known systemic bias toward "Recentism" extends beyond our hypermediated present, into realms of the past obscured by the "cutting" of history, a trend in post-WWII academic history writing championed by Foucault and other post-modernists. Jaredscribe (talk) 23:50, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I do want to note that according to the Wikipedia article on the War of the First Coalition, it was the French General Assembly that declared actual war first, which at least technically supports Hamilton's claims. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.208.123.119 (talk) 03:38, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

accurate

punctuation is needed 64.98.89.49 (talk) 23:26, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

jk good punctuation 64.98.89.49 (talk) 23:27, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pro-Monarchist Article Needs Major Corrections

Without providing Madison's argument equal space to Hamilton's, this article comes across as pro-monarchist and pro-Hamilton. Look at the words devoted to each and it's clear. What an abominable entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.246.119 (talk) 15:39, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]