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‘With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.’
1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, journalist and representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome 1833 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. 1849 – The Colony of Vancouver Island is established….
