Report on a fleet headed to Ireland

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Addresses a newspaper report that a fleet is in all probability headed to Ireland, and that the United States must take precautions to protect their own principal forts against any undesirable hostilities. States that it may be useful for the United States government to tell its citizens that it does not deem an invasion by a foreign power impossible.

Date

06/18/1799

Document number

1799061800301

Page start

1

Note

Cited in McHenry to Hamilton, 06/19/1799

Notable persons

Benjamin Stoddert
James McHenry

Notable locations

Sea
Ireland
ports
Charleston
New Orleans
Chesapeake
Delaware
New York
Newport
Boston
Egypt

Notable items

Newspapers
fleet
vessel
signals