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The Proclamation of Neutrality 1793
The Proclamation of Neutrality was written by George Washington in 1793 during a war in Europe -also known as the War of the First Coalition- between the countries of Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and France while the new nation of the United States adopted a policy regarding this dispute. Washington declared that America was to remain impartial to the fighting nations, and would take no action against these nations in Europe. American citizens were not to aid or take up arms, creating no alliances and not promising protection to those in the war either. Anyone who did so in the United States would be violating the law and subject to prosecutions in court.
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