<Li> USS Boston vs Berceau </Li> <Li> USS Enterprise vs Flambeau </Li> <P> 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 U.S. The war was called "quasi" because it was undeclared . It involved two years of hostilities at sea, in which both navies attacked the other's shipping in the West Indies . The unexpected fighting ability of the U.S. Navy, which destroyed the French West Indian trade, together with the growing weaknesses and final overthrow of the ruling Directory in France, led Talleyrand to reopen negotiations . At the same time, President Adams feuded with Hamilton over control of the Adams administration . Adams took sudden and unexpected action, rejecting the anti-French hawks in his own party and offering peace to France . In 1800 he sent William Vans Murray to France to negotiate peace; Federalists cried betrayal . Hostilities ended with the signing of the Convention of 1800 . </P> <P> The Kingdom of France, a crucial ally of the United States in the American Revolutionary War since early 1776, had lent 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 Great Britain, the Jay Treaty, ratified in 1795 . It 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 encouraged bilateral trade but it outraged the Jeffersonian Democrat Republicans, who favored France . </P>

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