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Tjoneslo Notes (2007)

The name of this company comes from the American Revolutionary War, as a way for the French and Spanish to fund and supply the fledging republic against the British without raising suspicions. Based in Paris, but operated out of St. Eustatius in the Lesser Antilles, the Bourbon Kings of Spain and France each provided one million livres to start the company in May of 1776, six weeks before the Declaration of Independence.

External Link: Spain in the Revolutionary War