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Specification lea - In this, that the said Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, commanding the United States brig Somers, being on the high seas, to wit, in 17° 34' 28 north latitude, and 57° 57' 45 west longitude, from Greenwich, or there abouts, on the first day of December, A. D. Eighteen hundred and forty-two, did then and there exceed the limits of his authority, and violate the thirtieth article of the act of Congress, entitled An act for the better government of the navy of the United States, approved April 23d, 1800, by hanging and causing to be hanged, by the neck, to the main yard-arm of the said brig, until he was dead, Philip Spencer, an acting midshipman, then in the service of the United States.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1331440017
- ISBN 13 9781331440017
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages366
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