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at Paris. On 30 November 1782, during a meeting with Franklin and a French delegate, Whitefoord recorded that the Frenchman "talked of the growing greatness of America; & that the thirteen United States would form the greatest Empire in the World. — Yes sir, I replied & they will all speak
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English, every one of 'em. His Triumph was check'd, he understood what was intended to be convey'd, viz. that from a similarity of Language Manners and Religion that great Empire would be English not French".
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The Whitefoord papers: being the correspondence and other manuscripts of Colonel Charles Whitefoord and Caleb Whiteford, from 1739 to 1810
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In 1766, Whitefoord published whimsical misreadings of newspaper texts, using the pseudonym Papyrius Cursor (a play on the name of
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The Complete Baronetage, vol. IV, 1665–1707, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1904, p. 401
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A postscript to Dr. Goldsmith's retaliation: being an epitaph on Samuel Johnson, LL.D
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Whitefoord, Charles; Whitefoord, Caleb (1898). William Albert Samuel Hewins (ed.).
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Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index
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Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775–1783
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in 1734, probably in the family home of Whitefoord House on the
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between Great Britain and the United States at Paris, 1782
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Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006).
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He moved to London, and in 1756 became a wine merchant.
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The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Volume X: 1789–1790
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Whitefoord
Whitefoord baronets
FRS
FRSE

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Edinburgh
Argyll Street
London
Edinburgh University
commission which concluded peace
FRS
FRSE
FRSA
political satirist
Edinburgh
Canongate
Royal Marines
Sir Adam Whitefoord, 1st Baronet
James Mundell's School
Edinburgh University
Lord Shelburne
Benjamin Franklin
Peace Commission
Royal Society of London
Robert Arbuthnot
Sir William Forbes
Alexander Fraser Tytler
Royal Society of Edinburgh
American Philosophical Society

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