Memoirs of My Own Times - General James Wilkinson + Burr's Conspiracy Exposed

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Memoirs of
My Own Times
In Three Volumes
By General James Wilkinson 1816
901 + 824 + 561 pages, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus Book -
Burr’s Conspiracy Exposed
And General Wilkinson
Vindicated
By James Wilkinson, 1811
136 pages, Searchable
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Bonus Book -
General Wilkinson
And His Later Intrigues
With the Spaniards
By Isaac Joslin Cox, 1914
15 pages, Searchable
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James Wilkinson (March 24, 1757 – December 28, 1825) was an American soldier and statesman, who was associated with several scandals and controversies. He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, but was twice compelled to resign. He was twice the Commanding General of the United States Army, appointed first Governor of the Louisiana Territory in 1805, and commanded two unsuccessful campaigns in the St. Lawrence theater during the War of 1812. After his death, he was discovered to have been a paid agent of the Spanish Crown.
After his resignation from the Continental Army, Wilkinson reluctantly became a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia in 1782 and also a state assemblyman in 1783, due to the wishes of George Washington.[9] He moved to the Kentucky District in 1784 and was active there in efforts to achieve independence from Virginia.
In April 1787, Wilkinson took a highly controversial trip to New Orleans, which was a colony of Spain At that time, Americans were not allowed to trade in New Orleans. Wilkinson met with Spanish Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró and managed to convince him to allow Kentucky to have a trading monopoly on the Mississippi River; in return he promised to promote Spanish interests in the west.
Wilkinson remained senior officer of the United States Army under President Thomas Jefferson. Along with Governor William C. C. Claiborne, Wilkinson shared the honor of taking possession of the Louisiana Purchase on behalf of the United States in 1803. At this time, Wilkinson renewed his treasonous relationship with Spanish colonial officials, offering advice to them on how to contain American expansion in exchange for the restoration of his pension. Among other things, Wilkinson tipped off the Spanish to the object of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
In 1805, following the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Wilkinson governor of the northern Louisiana territory despite his high-ranking position in the military. This was unusual: Jefferson had given Wilkinson a startling amount of power and authority. Wilkinson then sent Zebulon Pike on expeditions to the Southwest in 1805 and 1806 to discover the source of the Mississippi River.
Wilkinson was commissioned a major general in the War of 1812. In March 1813, Wilkinson led the American force that occupied Mobile in Spanish West Florida. He was then assigned to the St. Lawrence River theater of war, following Henry Dearborn's reassignment. Wilkinson engaged in two failed campaigns (the Battle of Crysler's Farm and the second Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814). He was then relieved from active service, but was cleared by a military inquiry.
In 1816, Wilkinson published a rambling apologia, titled Memoirs of My Own Times, in a final attempt to clear his name.
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