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Thomas Jefferson: “The present crisis in Europe is favorable for pressing such a settlement, and not a moment should be lost in availing…”

On the recordDecember 5, 1805
The present crisis in Europe is favorable for pressing such a settlement, and not a moment should be lost in availing ourselves of it.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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