Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 22 November 1804

From Robert Smith

[22 Nov. 1804]

Sir,

I send you the enclosed in order that you may perceive the movements of the Spanish troops from Pensacola to Baton Rouge in the extract marked +—

RS—

RC (DLC); undated; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 22 Nov. 1804 and “movement Span. troops to Baton rouge” and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found, but see below.

A widely reprinted extract of a letter from Baton Rouge, dated 8 Oct., reported the arrival there of Spanish troops “by a road which they had made from Pensacola.” The sizable contingent included 50 dragoons, a company of grenadiers, two companies of fusiliers, artillery, and musicians (Mississippi Herald, 9 Nov.; National Intelligencer, 23 Nov.; New York Morning Chronicle, 24 Nov.; Baltimore Telegraphe and Daily Advertiser, 29 Nov.).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 22 November 1804
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    Smith, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    22 November 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 22 November 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0068. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, pp. 60–61.]

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