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Textbook - "Madison accepted the French promise and proclaimed in November 1810 that the British had three months to follow suit"





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Madison took the French at their word and gave the British three months until February 1811 to do the same.How to rephrase something from textbook?
In November of 1810, by accepting the French promise, it was proclaimed by Madison that the British had to follow suit, in three months.