Why did Washington and the Federalists support Great Britain when it declared war on France?

Federalists feared that the French Revolution had become radical and violent, threatening political order in France and elsewhere in Europe. They therefore favored Britain in its war against revolutionary France, hoping France’s revolutionary government would be defeated and order restored. Washington’s policy was officially neutrality, so this support did not mean the United States formally joined Britain’s war.

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