31During the Revolutionary period Spanish authorities in the United
States kept careful watch over the movements of the Mexican patriot
and protested vigorously to the American government every timed
seemed neutrality laws were being violated. W. R. Manning (ed.), Dip
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lomatic
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the
United
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