Chesapeake (Frigate)

Letter from selectmen of Newburyport, MA to Selectmen of Norfolk, VA regarding the CHESAPEAKE.

Pamphlet entitled “A Calm and Dispassionate Enquiry into the Question of the CHESAPEAKE and the Necessity and Expediency of War” by an anonymous Yankee farmer.

Article giving first reports of the attack on the CHESAPEAKE.

Includes commentary on the attack on the CHESAPEAKE and the British threat.

Includes a speech of President Thomas Jefferson and correspondence between James Madison, James Monroe and George Canning regarding the attack on the CHESAPEAKE.

Correspondence and documents of James Madison, James Monroe and George Canning regarding the CHESAPEAKE Affair.

Commentary on the embargo and British threat.

Articles on the British threat and the embargo.

Article on Madison’s Glory War and the CHESAPEAKE.