A Quaker Goes to Spain: The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813–1816 - H. L. Dufour Woolfley - Google Books

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In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the…