Citizen Genêt continues to defy the wishes…
January 1794 CE
Citizen Genêt continues to defy the wishes of the United States government, capturing British ships and rearming them as privateers.
Washington sends Genêt an eight thousand-word letter of complaint on Jefferson's and Hamilton's advice—one of the few situations in which the Federalist Alexander Hamilton and the Democratic-Republican Jefferson agree.
Genêt replies obstinately.
The Jacobins, having taken power in France by January 1794, send an arrest notice that asks Genêt to come back to France.
Genêt, knowing that he will likely be sent to the guillotine, asks Washington for asylum.
It is Hamilton—Genêt's fiercest opponent in the cabinet—who convinces Washington to grant him safe haven in the United States.
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