Patriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army, and ...

T.p. verso: District of Pennsylvania ... on the fifth day of February ... A.D. 1817, General James Wilkinson, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a book ... "Memoirs of my ...

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