Letter

Gerolt to Hamilton Fish, October 12, 1870

[Translation.]

Baron Gerolt to Mr. Fish,

The undersigned, envoy and minister plenipotentiary of the North German Union, has the honor in behalf of his government to transmit to the honorable Secretary of State of the United States a copy of a dispatch from the chancellor of the North German Union, in which a formal protest is made to the Government of the United States against the violation of international law by the French troops.

The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to the Hon. Hamilton Fish the assurances of his most distinguished consideration.

FR, v. GEROLT.

Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, Washington, D. C.

Notes
1. No. 181.
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.