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By the end of Washington's presidency in early 1797, the matter was reaching crisis proportions. Shortly after assuming office on March 4, 1797, President John Adams learned that Charles Cotesworth Pinckney had been refused as U.S. minister because of the escalating crisis, and that American merchant ships had been seized in the Caribbean. [5]
Alexander Hamilton at around the time of the scandal, 1799. The Hamilton–Reynolds affair was the first major sex scandal in United States political history. It involved Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who conducted an affair with Maria Reynolds from 1791 to 1792, during the presidency of George Washington.
Benjamin West, Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes, 1797. The work was completed using a version of the supposed Venetian secret. The Venetian secret was a major scandal in the art world of eighteenth-century Britain.
July 8, 1797 – The Senate expelled Tennessee Senator William Blount for conspiring with the British July 11, 1798 – The United States Marine Corps was established XYZ Affair in the U.S., followed by naval skirmishes but no war is declared.
On August 25, 1797, unwilling to let the charges of public misconduct lie, Hamilton published what is known as The Reynolds Pamphlet, a 95-page account of Hamilton's affair with Maria and the blackmail scheme set up by her husband. After the Pamphlet was released, Maria was publicly scorned and she and her second husband decided to move to Britain.
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton had an affair with Maria Reynolds while both were married to other people (see Hamilton-Reynolds sex scandal). Reynolds's husband blackmailed Hamilton, who paid to maintain secrecy. In 1797, after Hamilton was no longer Treasury Secretary, journalist James Callender publicized the affair. Hamilton ...
The song refers to a 95-page document written by Alexander Hamilton, former Secretary of the Treasury, to defend his name in the wake of a sex scandal. [1] Hamilton does so to protect himself from a major political threat, as Thomas Jefferson , James Madison and Aaron Burr are made aware by Hamilton of his adulterous actions after they accused ...
1797: XYZ Affair - a political and diplomatic episode involving confrontation with the United States that led to the Quasi-War. 1816: shipwreck of and search for the French frigate Méduse off the west coast of Africa; 1847: Teste-Cubières corruption scandal, revealed in May 1847