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Orange Jacobs: “Its attempted exercise would have been resisted with all the power of Great Britain.”

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Its attempted exercise would have been resisted with all the power of Great Britain.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs predicts that any attempt by Great Britain to exercise power over the island would be met with strong resistance.

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