Speech of Robert Goodloe Harper at Annapolis on January 20, 1814.

• imprint_number: 1814.058
• title: Speech of Robert Goodloe Harper, Esq., at the celebration of the recent triumphs of the cause of mankind in Germany delivered at Annapolis, January 20, 1814, at the request of the Committee of Arrangements for the Festival, and published by their order.
• sequence_number: 58
• year: 1814
• place_issued: Alexandria
• issuing_press: Snowden & Simms
• author: Harper, Robert Goodloe (1765-1825).
• notes: Harper spoke at the first of a series of Federalist celebrations in 1814 marking the defeat of the French armies in central Europe and then the abdication of Napoleon; this gathering was held to memorialize Napoleon's retreat into France in November 1813, following his army's defeat at two battles in Germany in October 1813.
  The firm of Snowden & Simms then published the Federalist-oriented Alexandria Gazette.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Douglass Simms, Sr.
  • Samuel Snowden

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