The Leopard attacks the USS Chesapeake...

The Royal Navy’s humiliating attack on the Chesapeake left many Americans clamoring for war, but there was little the ill-prepared United States could do to answer British aggression. President Jefferson is said to have noted: “Never since the Battle of Lexington have I seen this country in such a state of exasperation as at present, and even that did not produce such unanimity.”
Four pages, minor wear at the margins, good condition.