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Adams in the Ascendancyentered at Archangel. 60 T o Riga, Reval, Libau, and the lesserRussian ports came forty or so additional American ships,making the total of American vessels entering Russian ports in1810 something in the vicinity of two hundred. 61The impact of these two hundred on Russia's economy andon the Continental System was magnified by the fact thatAmerican ships no w habitually arrived in Russia loaded withgoods and not in ballast as in normal times. 62 Th e commercialwarfare between France and England had robbed Americansof so many of their markets that Russia was one of the fewcountries left to which Americans could export. Th e total ofexports from the United States to Russia in 181 o amounted invalue to nearly four million dollars, well over four times theamount of 1809, the previous all-time high. 63If, as Napoleon believed, all Americans coming to Russiawere smuggling for the British, then a great breach had beentorn in the wall of the Continental System in 1810.1. C . Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Vol. II, n. 136; letter toSecretary of State, 31 July 1810, St. Petersburg, in John Quincy AdamsLetterbook, in microfilms of Adams Papers, Reel 136, p. 131.2. Hildt, Early Diplomatic Negotiations, pp. 47, 48, 50.3. C . Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, II, 180.4. John Quincy Adams Diary, 28 May 1810, in microfilms of AdamsPapers, Reel 31, p. 113.5. Letter to Charles Saunders, 3 August 1810, St. Petersburg; letter toPickman and Derby, 11 October 1810, Gothenburg, Letterbook of CaptainThomas B. Osgood (Peabody Museum).6. Dawes (ed.), William's Marine Notes, pp. 163, 164 (Essex Institute).7. Letter to William Gray, 12 June 1811, St. Petersburg, in John QuincyAdams Letterbook, in microfilms of Adams Papers, Reel 135.8. C . Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, II, 143, 169, 199—200;Ford, Writings of John Quincy Adams, III, 13, 18.191