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" As soon as they were left alone Mrs. Arnold became tranquillized, and assured Mrs. Prevost that she was heartily sick of the theatrics she was exhibiting. She stated that she had corresponded with the British commander — that she was disgusted with... "
The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in ... - Page 219
by Aaron Burr - 1836
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Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His ..., Volume 1

Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis - History - 1836 - 454 pages
...scenes of West Point were renewed, and continued so long as strangers were present. Mrs. Prevost waa known as the wife of a British officer, and connected...inordinate vanity, she contributed greatly to the uttei ruin of her husband, and thus doomed to everlasting infamy and disgrace all the fame he had acquired...
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Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His ..., Volume 1

Aaron Burr - New York (State) - 1837 - 456 pages
...authorities which were necessary for him to examine a read. During the time he remained at Haverstraw, ht studied from sixteen to twenty hours a day. In the...inordinate vanity, she contributed greatly to the uttei ruin of her husband, and thus doomed to everlasting infamy and disgrace all the fame he had acquired...
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Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His ..., Volume 1

Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis - New York (State) - 1837 - 450 pages
...Mrs. Arnold (the wife of General Arnold), under a pretext of supplying her, from the city of New-York, with millinery and other trifling articles of dress....inordinate vanity, she contributed greatly to the uttei ruin of her husband, and thus doomed to everlasting infamy and disgrace all the fame he had acquired...
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Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His ..., Volume 1

Aaron Burr - 1837 - 450 pages
...obtained from General Washington a passport, and permission to join her husband in the city of New-York, left West Point, and on her way stopped at the house...inordinate vanity, she contributed greatly to the uttei ruin of her husband, and thus doomed to everlasting infamy and disgrace all the fame he had acquired...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 21

1837 - 536 pages
...she was disgusted with the American cause, and those who had the management of public affairs—and that, through great persuasion and unceasing perseverance,...inordinate vanity, she contributed greatly to the utter 'uin of her husband, and thus doomed to everlasting infamy and disgrace nil the fame he had acquired...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 36

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...owing to her disgust at the Americans— "Through great persuasion and unceasing perseverance, she hnd ultimately brought the general into an arrangement...British. Mrs. Arnold was a gay, accomplished, artful, and estravagant woman. There is no doubt, therefore, that, for the purpose of'acquiring the means of gratifying...
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American Scenery: Or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic ...

Nathaniel Parker Willis - Middle Atlantic States - 1840 - 302 pages
...continued so long as strangers were present. As soon as she and Mrs. Prevost were left alone, however, Mrs. Arnold became tranquillized, and assured Mrs....for the purpose of acquiring the means of gratifying her vanity, she contributed greatly to the utter ruin of her husband, and thus doomed to everlasting...
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Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His ..., Volume 1

Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis - New York (State) - 1855 - 450 pages
...obtained from General Washington a passport, and permission to join her husband in the city of New-York, left West Point, and on her way stopped at the house...inordinate vanity, she contributed greatly to the uttei ruin of her husband, and thus doomed to everlasting infamy and disgrace all the fame he had acquired...
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Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution ..., Volume 1

Lorenzo Sabine - History - 1864 - 628 pages
...theatricals she was exhibiting ; " that " she was disgusted with the American cause, and those vvho had the management of public affairs ; and that, through...arrangement to surrender West Point to the British." Parton, the latest biographer of Burr, is more particular. He relates, that one evening while Burr...
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 25

Pennsylvania - 1901 - 684 pages
...corresponded with the British commander — " [after the lapse of a century the letters have not been shown;] "that she was disgusted with the American Cause and...arrangement to surrender West Point to the British." [Arnold began the corretpondence over a year before he applied for the command of West Point.] "Mrs....
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