MWAHAHAHA!! This is payback for not helping us in our revolution!
Please don't hurt me! I give up you can have the ship!
The XYZ Negotiation
Give us money, then we can talk. Like a lot of it please. Also you can't see us because you can't know who we are.
Okay we'll call you XYZ. But also no way, we'd rather fight you, so bye.
John Adams Response
Excellent idea sir.
I've got it! France is stealing our ships let us steal theirs! Ha, I'm a genius. Then we can make up and become friends.
France captures an American ship that's trading with Great Britain because France thought America didn't "stay neutral" in the French Revolution like they said they would.
Three smart delegates went to negotiate with France about ships being stolen, but France demanded a bribe to even get into the room to talk. America said that they would rather fight France in war than spend millions of dollars just to talk.
President John Adams decides to steal France's ships in retaliation. Then afterward they figure it out and stop stealing from one another.
Sukurta daugiau nei 30 milijonų siužetinių lentelių