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- GLC#
- GLC02794.056-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1803/09/13
- Author/Creator
- Davis, George Barber, fl. 1803-1811
- Title
- Extract of letter to James Madison re: Cathcart's allegations
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 7 p. : Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Davis provides Madison with an account of his conversation with the Bey Sapatapa regarding Cathcart's allegations that Davis was no longer the recognized American Consul. With a copy of a letter from James Leander Cathcart, Consul at Tunis, to the Bey of Tunis. Davis defends himself to Sapatapa, attempting to maintain his position in the Consulate. Regarding Cathcart, Sapatapa says, "he was but four days in my Regency, and has already brought us to the Brink of war." [Per Madison Papers, 6/28/96, letter is by George Davis, acting Consul at Tunis.]
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