<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> secures <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands–United_States_relations" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Netherlands–United States relations">Dutch recognition of the United States</a> as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Hague">The Hague</a> becomes the first American embassy.<sup about="#mwt60" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_19#cite_note-11" id="mwcg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcw">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt57" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBZ4"><a class="external text" href="https://history.state.gov/countries/netherlands" id="mwBZ8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The Netherlands - Countries - Office of the Historian"</a>. <i id="mwBaA">history.state.gov</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBaE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBaI">2021-11-18</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt57" class="Z3988" id="mwBaM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=history.state.gov&amp;rft.atitle=The+Netherlands+-+Countries+-+Office+of+the+Historian&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhistory.state.gov%2Fcountries%2Fnetherlands&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+19"></span></span>