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To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 30 April 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Robert Montgomery

30 April 1801, Alicante. Has received no orders since his letter of 31 Mar. Transmits copies of two letters received by last packet from Algiers. Though no Barbary cruisers have appeared on the coast, has informed masters of U.S. vessels of the danger.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Alicante, vol. 1). 2 pp.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Montgomery; docketed by Wagner as received 8 Aug., with his notation: “This letter is of consequence only as it shews that on the 30th. April no tripolitan cruisers were seen off the coast.”

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    To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 30 April 1801 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    30 April 1801

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    “To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 30 April 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0180. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, p. 127.]

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