Editing Joel Barlow (section)

=== Mission to France and death ===
In 1811, Barlow was appointed as [[United States Ambassador to France|U.S. minister to France]]; he sailed across the Atlantic on the ''[[USS Constitution]]''. His task was to negotiate an end to the [[Berlin Decree]] and the [[Milan Decree]], as well as obtain the release of American ships and crews held by the French during the Napoleonic wars.<ref name="somers" /> He befriended, and was served as consul and prize agent, by the [[Society of United Irishmen|United-Irish exile]] [[David Bailie Warden]].<ref name="Gilmore">{{cite book |last1=Gilmore |first1=Peter |last2=Parkhill |first2=Trevor |last3=Roulston |first3=William |title=Exiles of '98: Ulster Presbyterians and the United States |date=2018 |publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation |location=Belfast |isbn=9781909556621 |pages=25–37 |url=https://www.ancestryireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Exiles-lo-res.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122211244/https://www.ancestryireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Exiles-lo-res.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |access-date=16 January 2021 }}</ref><ref name="Butler">{{cite journal |last1=Butler |first1=William E. |title=David Bailie Warden and the Development of American Consular Law |journal=Journal of the History of International Law |date=2011 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=377–424, 317 |doi=10.1163/15718050-13020005 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jhil/13/2/article-p377_5.xml?language=en |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref> In October 1812, Barlow set off for [[Vilnius]] to negotiate a treaty with the French foreign minister, who was based in [[Lithuania]] to prepare for the [[French invasion of Russia]]. By the time he arrived, the French army was already in full retreat from [[Moscow]].
[[File:Joel Barlow monument Zarnowiec cementery 2014 P01.JPG|thumb|Monument to Barlow in [[Żarnowiec, Silesian Voivodeship|Żarnowiec]], Poland]]
Barlow chose to take the southerly route to return to Paris, by way of [[Kraków|Krakow]] and [[Vienna]]. He became ill and died of [[pneumonia]] on December 26, 1812, in the Polish village of [[Żarnowiec, Silesian Voivodeship|Żarnowiec]].<ref name="somers">{{cite web|last1=Sommers|first1=William|title=American Writers Who Were Diplomats: Joel Barlow|url=http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2012/0106/ca/sommers_barlow.html|website=American Diplomacy|publisher=American Diplomacy Publishers|access-date=2017-06-18|archive-date=2018-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411091928/http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2012/0106/ca/sommers_barlow.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> A monument was later erected to him there.