All posts tagged "Quasi-War"
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15.9KMassachusettsAbigail Adams Attacked Thomas Jefferson As No One Else Dared To Do
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
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24.0K10MassachusettsJohn Adams Supports Toussaint Louverture, Horrifies Jefferson
From 1798 to 1801, President John Adams recognized a government led by Toussaint Louverture, a former slave, a self-educated black man and...
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13.2K8MassachusettsJohn Adams Outlaws Fake News in 1798 – and Dooms His Presidency
Government criticism of ‘Fake news’ is nothing new. And trying to silence it was as unpopular in the early days of the...
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5.0K1ConnecticutLt. Col. Ebenezer Huntington Bemoans ‘Rascally Stupidity’ of His Countrymen
On July 7, 1780, a despairing Lt. Col. Ebenezer Huntington of Norwich, Conn., had no way of knowing the United States would...
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