<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fordyce" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexander Fordyce">Alexander Fordyce</a> flees to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kingdom of France">France</a> to avoid debt repayment, triggering the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_credit_crisis_of_1772–1773" id="mwQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British credit crisis of 1772–1773">credit crisis of 1772</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire" id="mwQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a>.<sup about="#mwt37" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_8#cite_note-6" id="mwRQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwRg">[6]</span></a></sup>
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