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The miscellaneous works of David Humphreys : late minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the court of Madrid.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 6520. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humphreys, David, 1752-1818.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 6520.
- Standardized Title:
- Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy.
- United States.
- United States. Army.
- Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790.
- Putnam, Israel.
- United States--Defenses.
- Defenses.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 394 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Printed by T. & J. Swords, 1804.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- Poems
- Remarks on the war between the United States and Tripoli
- Thoughts on the necessity of maintaining a navy
- Poems
- Life of Putnam
- Political situation of the United States in 1789
- Dissertation on the merino breed of sheep
- Consideration on the means of improving the public defence
- Proceedings for obtaining an act of the legislature for securing the funds of the Cincinnati, in Connecticut
- Appendix: Letter I-V, from General Washington to Colonel Humphreys. French tribute to the memory of General Washington. American tribute of respect to Colonel Humphreys
- Subscribers' names.
- Notes:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 6520).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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