1From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 29 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The United States, Great Britain and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812
2Memorandum Books, 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
were partners in the commission house of Brown, Rives & Co. until Brown’s financial failure during the War of 1812. Rives had married
3Notes on a Conversation with Uriah Springer, 20 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...under Lord Dunmore in 1774, served as an officer in Virginia regiments of the Continental Line during the Revolutionary War, was a captain of United States infantry from 1792 to 1796, and was commissioned a brigade inspector during the War of 1812 (Louise Phelps Kellogg, ed.,
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 16 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...allies in the U.S. with the exception of TJ. During Madison’s presidency in 1811 Wilkinson was court-martialed, winning acquittal for lack of evidence. Again court-martialed for dereliction of duty as major general in the War of 1812, he was once more acquitted. He did not, however, regain his command, and he spent his final years in New Orleans and Mexico (
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Minor, 10 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
. In April 1801, Minor wrote TJ a brief letter of introduction for John F. Gaullier of Fredericksburg. Minor, who earlier in his life had been known as John Minor, Jr., became a general in the War of 1812 (
6From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Mitchell, 21 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...in March 1803 and served in the Mediterranean in 1804 and 1805. Commissioned a lieutenant in 1809, he saw action commanding a sloop in the naval flotilla at Delaware Bay during the War of 1812, drawing praise as a “gallant officer.” He later served less successfully at the Battle of Lake Champlain, where his commanding officer deprecated his bravery and characterized him as “the most profane...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Deblois, 24 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...were on friendly terms with a number of prominent political families. By 1804, TJ was using Deblois as an intermediary for handling small Alexandria accounts. Burdened by debts after the War of 1812, the Deblois family left Alexandria for Massachusetts, where Tristram Dalton had been appointed surveyor of the port of Boston. When Dalton died in 1817, Deblois expected to succeed his father-...
8Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
During the War of 1812 he took control of Spanish West Florida after which success he was transferred to the upper New York theater, where he bore responsibility for the U.S. defeats at the battles of Chrysler’s Farm and Lacolle Mill and...
9Memorandum Books, 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
. Closely linked with the Academy and the Corps of Engineers, this society was dissolved during the War of 1812 (see Sidney Forman, “The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813,”
10Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, 6 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
He was commissioned a brigadier general during the War of 1812 and became