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(MIRANDA EXPEDITION). LLOYD, THOMAS (Stenographer). The Trials of William S. Smith, and Samuel G. Ogden, for Misdemeanours, Had in the Circuit Court of the United States for the New-York District, in July, 1806. With a Preliminary Account of the Proceedings of the Same Court Against Messrs. Smith & Ogden, in the Preceding April Term. New York: I. Riley & Co., 1807. 1st ed. 8vo. 33, 287 pp. Disbound (sound). $175.00
S & S 13743. Col. W.S. Smith, a Revolutionary soldier, and Samuel Ogden, a merchant, aided Francisco de Miranda to deceitfully recruit 200 Americans to sail to South America bent upon revolution. They were tried for complicity in fitting out Miranda's filibustering expedition to South America, but were acquitted, while some of the recruits, including Smith's nephew, were captured by the Spanish remained for years in Carthagena Prison.