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Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Mobile, Alabama, came under United States possession on April 18, 1813, through a secretive operation led by Gen. Wilkinson, resulting in a peaceful transfer of government from Spanish control without any loss of life or property.
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MOBILE IN OUR POSSESSION.
FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.
Mobile, April 18, 1813.
This place is happily in the possession of the United States. It is an event which we have long anxiously looked for: but in my mind there has always, with hope, been a mixture of fear, that, whenever it took place, it might be accompanied with a considerable destruction of private property, if not the entire desolation of the town. By the secrecy and judicious arrangements with which Gen. Wilkinson has conducted the business, the good has been accomplished without any intermixture of evil, and the government has been transferred without the smallest loss of blood or treasure, although it is clearly ascertained that the Spaniards had contemplated a vigorous resistance.
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Mobile
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April 18, 1813
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government has been transferred without the smallest loss of blood or treasure
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This place is happily in the possession of the United States. It is an event which we have long anxiously looked for: but in my mind there has always, with hope, been a mixture of fear, that, whenever it took place, it might be accompanied with a considerable destruction of private property, if not the entire desolation of the town. By the secrecy and judicious arrangements with which Gen. Wilkinson has conducted the business, the good has been accomplished without any intermixture of evil, and the government has been transferred without the smallest loss of blood or treasure, although it is clearly ascertained that the Spaniards had contemplated a vigorous resistance.