Quasi War

Quasi War
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
From top to bottom: USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente; U.S. Marines from the USS Constitution boarding and capturing French privateer Sandwich
Date 1798–1800 Location Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean Result Indecisive Convention of 1800 Cessation of Franco-American alliance Reduction in French privateer attacks on American shipping American neutrality and renunciation of claims against France
Belligerents
United States Co-belligerent:  Great Britain	France Guadeloupe
Commanders and leaders
John Adams George Washington Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Stoddert	Paul Barras Napoléon Bonaparte Edme Desfourneaux Victor Hugues André Rigaud
Strength
A fleet of 54 including: 18 Frigates 4 Sloops 2 Brigs 3 Schooners 5,700 Sailors and Marines 365 privateers	Unknown fleet size Unknown number of Sailors and Marines
Casualties and losses
American: Before U.S. military involvement: 28 killed 42 wounded 22 privateers captured Over 2000 merchant ships captured in total After U.S. military involvement: 1 ship captured (later recaptured) 54+ killed 43+ wounded British: Unknown	French: Unknown number of killed or wounded Several French privateers and warships captured or destroyed

Indecisive
Convention of 1800

 United States

 France

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The Quasi-War (French: Quasi-guerre) was an undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States of America and the French Republic from 1798 to 1800. After the toppling of the French crown during the French Revolutionary Wars, the United States refused to continue repaying its debt to France on the grounds that it had been owed to a previous regime. French outrage led to a series of attacks on American shipping, ultimately leading to retaliation from the Americans and the end of hostilities with the signing of the Convention of 1800 shortly thereafter.

The Kingdom of France, a crucial ally of the United States in the American Revolutionary War since early 1776, had loaned the US large sums of money, and had signed in 1778 a treaty of alliance with the United States of America against Great Britain. Louis XVI of France fell from power in 1792 during the French Revolution and the French monarchy was abolished. As a result, in 1794 the American government came to an agreement with the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Jay Treaty, that resolved several points of contention between the United States and Great Britain that had lingered after the end of the American Revolutionary War. It also contained economic clauses.

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