HISTORICAL NEWS from 1798 | Antique newspaper reading

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TIMECODES:
00:37 - Ships setting sail
1:03 - The Boston Theatre and its fire
1:45 - Lost items!
2:24 - A short history of US and French relations between 1783-1798
4:58 - France begins to get aggressive
5:50 - ** THE XYZ AFFAIR!!! **
7:30 - "French Arrogance" Hedouville's rebuttal
11:12 - Things escalate and the Quasi War with France begins
12:14 - ** ONLY '90s KIDS REMEMBER THE XYZ AFFAIR!! **
13:13 - Tallien's speech
15:09 - More preparation for a possible war with France
15:44 - New elections & fortifying Castle Island
17:28 - The printers omitted many things in order to make space for the Increase Sumner's speech
18:00 - John Adams responds to the public
19:11 - Ancient and Honorable Artillery
19:54 - Toasts given
21:20 - Word on the street in France about a large invasion of England to be led by Napoleon!
22:36 - Where Napoleon ACTUALLY was--and what it led to! (Discovery of the Rosetta Stone!)
24:17 - The British leave Port au Prince -- Haitian Revolution
25:19 - Clearing the coast of [French] pirates
26:13 - Boston Directory (like the Yellow Pages!)
26:51 - The Humane Society (like a precursor to the Coast Guard)
28:12 - LOST ITEM
28:59 - Adams & Liberty - patriotic song for sale
29:42 - A family hiring some positions
30:12 - Baker selling hard tack
30:54 - Adams & Liberty for sale again!
31:08 - More music for sale - Hail Columbia
31:42 - A day of humiliation and prayer
32:46 - ** MR. LEGE'S DANCING SCHOOL!! **
34:12 - ** CLASS OF 1798 REPRESENT!! ** (Super esoteric)
34:30 - Books for sale, ladies' memorandum books
34:52 - A poem for sale
35:12 - Book wanted - Smith's History of New Jersey
36:00 - Strayed horse
36:48 - Child labor

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MORE INFO
Federal Street Theatre
https://archives.bpl.org/repositories...
http://bostonliteraryhistory.com/chap...

XYZ Affair / Quasi War with France
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
https://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/...

New people elected
https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catal...

Castle Island
https://www.masshist.org/object-of-th...

Rosetta Stone
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/ev...

John Barry
https://www.ushistory.org/people/comm...

Boston Directory
See it here: https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digit...

Humane Society
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...
https://www.masshist.org/collection-g....
They still exist today: http://www.masslifesavingawards.org/

Adams & Liberty song
LYRICS: https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100010461/
SONG:    • Adams and Liberty (1798) (feat. Ameri...  

Hail Columbia song
   • Hail Columbia! with Lyrics; First Ame...  
https://loc.gov/item/ihas.200000008
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/...

A day for humiliation and prayer:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/docum...

More on Mr. Lege:
https://books.google.com/books?id=daU...

Smith’s History of New Jersey:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
Jeremy Belknap had already published a History of New Hampshire – https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/...

Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
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