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Nov. 3, 2019

3.06 – To Limited Arms

3.06 – To Limited Arms

Year(s) Discussed: 1795-1801

Jefferson managed to get a permanent Secretary of the Navy just in time for Commodore Dale’s naval squadron to engage in combat in the Mediterranean. In addition to that key post being filled, the administration was able to make some additional structural decisions during the final months of 1801 in time for the new congressional session in December. Meanwhile, a new opposition was organized by a key Federalist leader to ensure that Jefferson’s first annual message would not go unquestioned.

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Season 3 03 - Thomas Jefferson

Featured Image: “U.S. Schooner Enterprize Capturing the Tripolitan Corsair Tripoli, 1 August 1801” by William Bainbridge Hoff [1878], courtesy of Wikipedia


Intro and Outro Music: Selections from “Jefferson and Liberty” as performed by The Itinerant Band

 

Special thanks to E.M. Rummage of the Age of Napoleon podcast and Michael Troy of the American Revolution podcast for providing the intro quotes for this episode!

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Featured Image: “Captain Richard Dale, USN” by Richard W Dodson [1865], courtesy of Wikipedia