“ At five that morning, Edgar Allan Poe met the fate anticipated in his poem To Annie: Thank Heaven! the crisis— The danger is past, And the lingering illness, Is over at last— And the Fever called ‘Liv… Paul Collins
“ New York was the swing state in the upcoming presidential election—and Manhattan was the swing district in New York State. Control the city, and you controlled the 1800 presidential race. Paul Collins
“ Much of Hamilton’s previous two years had been spent building up an additional army, justified by stoking fears of a French invasion of godless radicals. That country’s revolution, Hamilton warned, ex… Paul Collins
