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 A janissary revolt occurs citing the Sultan's inability to achieve victory of protect the empire. Selim III is deposed and replaced with Mustafa IV.
+St. Lucian planter Alexander Patterson begins organizing his vast smuggling Caribbean trade ring meant to give beleaguered Caribbean planters a way to ship their crops to Britain and past the embargo act.
 Mustafa signs the Treaty of Ragusa with U.S. and North African republicans to end the fighting in North Africa.
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 The Constitutional Convention of Tripoli creates the Constitutional Sultanate of Tripolitania with Hamet Karamanli appointed Sultan. The new Constitution also brings about the "25 year clause" in which every 25 years the people of Tripoli would vote on whether or not to change their system of government.
+A sweep of the Caribbean by the U.S. Navy heavily damages the illegal trade ring and Alexander Patterson is arrested. He will be later pardoned by Thomas Jefferson just before he leaves office.
+The imprisonment of Patterson and the destruction of the trade ring brings the Caribbean to the point of succession. The Circle of Eight, eight powerful planters and politicians from the Caribbean begin plotting their rebellion led by Senator Ethan Smithson of Jamaica.
+The Circle of Eight leads a rebel militia in capturing Kingston, Jamaica. The island is divided and Kingston is placed under martial law.
 James Madison and Napoleon sign the Treaty of Emergency Alliance putting the U.S. and France into an alliance that can be enacted when the other is in desperate need of an ally.
-King Leopold I of the Two Sicilies lands with his Sicilian forces south of Naples starting the L’attacco Opposta, the Counterattack.
+Toussaint L’Ouverture and Thomas Jefferson agree to terms that allow Haiti to put down the Jamaican revolt in exchange for the repealing of the Embargo Act.
+Toussaint L’Ouverture and a creole Haitian militia put down the rebellion in Jamaica put fail to find and capture rogue senator Ethan Smithson.
+King Leopold I of the Two Sicilies lands with his Sicilian forces south of Naples starting the L’attacco Opposta, the Counterattack.
+James Madison defeats Charles Pinckney to becomes President of the United States.
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