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Bainbridge and the Quasi-War... Napoleon was assassinated?



Item # 706092

February 28, 1799

THE UNIVERSAL GAZETTE, Philadelphia, Feb. 28, 1799  The front page has 1 1/2 columns on a letter to: "The Secretary of the Navy" from William Bainbridge, concerning the controversy of him surrendering his ship to the French in the Quasi-War, which was a limited naval war against French privateers who were seizing U.S. shipping in the Caribbean.
The back page has "An Act" of Congress relating to the Quasi-War with France.
Page 3 has: "The New From Egypt" begins: "Containing the important particulars of the assassination of Buonaparte, yesterday, very much agitated the public mind...". It was not true.
Four pages, nice condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #364, released for March, 2026

Category: The 1600's and 1700's