Letter

Bancroft to Copy annexed of Thile to G. B. August 14, 1870, August 14, 1870

Author

Bancroft

Recipient

Copy annexed of Thile to G. B. August 14, 1870

Date

August 14, 1870

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Washburne.

Berlin, August 14, 1870.

Sir: Can you not persuade the French government to recede from the expulsion of the Germans? It is against the law of nations, of civilization; all but unheard of.

To-day this government opens for you a credit with the Rothschilds to the amount of fifty thousand thalers for the assistance of Germans in poverty and expelled from France. They wish you to use the sum frugally, and only in cases of necessity, and only to give the means of reaching the frontier. But I hope and believe you will induce the French to recall the order.

Your letter of the 10th is received, and the subject has been referred to headquarters. I shall answer you by letter as soon as shall be possible.

Colonel Grammont lies in Reichshofen amputated.

Of Colonel Vassart I have as yet no tidings, though telegraphs have gone about him.

GEO. BANCROFT.

Copy annexed of Thile to G. B.

August 14, 1870.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.