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Working on my previously mentioned Haitian timeline so doing a lot of reading of the US and surrounding areas from about the length of the Napoleonic Wars. One of the interesting people I have come across is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Armstrong,_Jr. Gave me an opportunity to read up on the Newburgh Conspriacy. It is widely accepted, and even alluded to in his own writings, that he wrote the letters. The Newburgh Conspiracy looks to more than a few people as a potential military coup d'etat.



It appears he was a friend of Jefferson and in 1812 was appointed as a Brigadier General before being named Secretary of War (at which he was...unsuccessful). Ignoring his epic failings as Secretary of War (which we know only though hindsight), how did Jefferson or Madison put him in any possible position of power, particularly with the MILITARY? Seems almost asking for trouble.


Then again, these are the same people who kept around known Spanish Spy James Wilkinson...
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