USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Genêt promised that the privateers he had commissioned would no longer send their prizes to U.S. ports and that they would leave American waters.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edmond Charles Genet was a French diplomat sent to the United States during George Washington’s first term as president in 1792. He planned to have Americans attack the British and Spanish in North America, countries then at war with France.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Citizen Genêt affair began in 1793 when he was dispatched to the United States to promote American support for France’s wars with Spain and Britain. Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on the French frigate Embuscade on April 8.

Detailed explanation-4: -The United States remained neutral, as both Federalists and Democratic-Republicans saw that war would lead to economic disaster and the possibility of invasion.

Detailed explanation-5: -Why was George Washington’s reception of Edmond Genet as ambassador of France during the French Revolution so significant? It reflected the authority of the president to officially recognize specific regimes as the sovereign power of a nation when there is doubt as to who rules.