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The Battle of Tippecanoe

Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)

Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc

Year: 1900 (1900s)

Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909

Subjects: Nineteenth century

Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON. 21 mysterious conversations; so that, onbeing appreliended and brought to trialin Kentucky, he obtained a verdict ofacquittal. The goveruor of Ohio, how-ever, seized a quantity of boats andstores ; and strict watch was kept alongthe whole line. Burr was only able, on the 25th ofDecember, to assemble at the mouth ofthe Cumberland river, from sixty to ahundred men, with whom he saileddown the Mississippi. General Wilkin-son had been instructed to settle theSpanish difference as soon as possible,and direct all his attention to securingNew Orleans, and suppressing this en.-terprise. Burr, therefore, finding nosupport in the country, was unable toresist the force prepared against him;his followers dispersed, and he him-self, endeavoring to escape, was arrest-ed on his way to Mobile. He wastried on a charge of treason ; butthe chief justice was of opinion that,though Blanerhasset, his coadjutor, hadopenly announced the project of at-tempting the separa

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