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====The United States prepares for War with France====
[[File:Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-Périgord_by_François_Gérard,_1808.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1808]]
In the meantime, the envoys’ dispatches reached the United States. President Adams prepared for war, and pro-war Federalists pushed Congress to support him. Leaders of the Democratic-Republican party were suspicious of Adams’ motives and demanded that he publicly release the diplomatic correspondence describing the negotiations in France. Adams, knowing its contents, obliged them and released the correspondence, but replaced the names of the French intermediaries with the letters W, X, Y, and Z.
* Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/xyz| The XYZ Affair and the Quasi-War with France, 1798–1800]
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