Item #37542 Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on so much of the message of the President of the United States, as relates to aggressions committed within our ports and waters by foreign armed vessels. November 24, 1807. R. Smith, Thomas. United States. Navy Dept Blount.

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on so much of the message of the President of the United States, as relates to aggressions committed within our ports and waters by foreign armed vessels. November 24, 1807.

Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1807. 4 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A very good copy, trimmed at an angle, with browning at some edges. American Imprints 13946. Item #37542

Letter from Robert Smith, secretary of the Navy, correcting errors made in the report originally sent to Thomas Blount regarding the attack & surrender of the USS Chesapeake to the British HMS Leopard. The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair was a humiliating defeat for the unprepared Americans, resulting in the suspension of James Barron's command, as well as Jefferson's unpopular Embargo Act of 1807, which was signed into law a month after this report.

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