[arrogantsob]

The Jay Treaty was no more an alliance than any other treaty we signed at the time. We also had treaties with France and Spain. In any case had the Democrats allowed Hamilton to be the envoy negotiating with Britain we would have gotten a much better deal. In any case this was long before the "Napoleonic Wars" you referenced.

Tallyrand was just a crook hoping he had the US over a barrel. He used any method he could to pressure the US including enlisting his Fifth Column, the Jeffersonians, to undermine Washington.

[conimbricenses]

The Jay Treaty was no more an alliance than any other treaty we signed at the time.

Not true. None of the other alliances gave preference and exclusivity clauses for the West Indies trade.

The Jay Treaty's date - 1796 - also places it smack in the middle of the "Napoleonic Wars" era - the period of nearly continuous hostility between Britain and France lasting from the start of the French Revolution and subsequent war in 1792 to Waterloo in 1815.