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THE FEDERALIST. No. XIX.

Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison

Pfeffel, “Nouvel Abrég. Chronol. de l’Hist., etc., d’Allemagne,” says the pretext was to indemnify himself for the expense of the expedition.

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…he had secretly intended from the beginning, to revive an antiquated claim, on the pretext that his ancestors had suffered the place to be dismembered from his territory,[1] he took possession of it in his own name, disarmed, and punished the inhabitants, and reannexed the city to his domains.

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