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The Queen of Washington

Francis Hamit

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Description:This is a novel about Confederate spy Rose Greenhow which posits that she was also a spy for the French and British even before the Mexican War. It begins in 1850 in Mexico City and San Francisco with her involvement with Jose Y. Limatour and his notorious land claims, one of which was fro half of the City of San Francisco. Her husband, formerly a high State Department official, has been sent to examine California land claims in Mexico and lost his wife's affections to Limantour who may also be a French secret agent. Rose, a disciple of John C. Calhoun, aides the French and the British in their efforts to split the United States because it fits with her plans to keep the South a slave-owning nation. After her husband becomes friends with Judah P. Benjamin, a rising politician from Louisiana, and her husband;s apparent death, Benjamin, now a U.S Senator, helps her and she regains some of her former power as a Washington hostess and political operative and, after her friend James Buchanan becomes President, becomes the Queen of Washington; the most powerful woman in the land. After Lincoln is elected and the South tries to go its own way she organizes a spy ring and give the South the intelligence it needs to win at the first Battle of Mannassas (Bull's Run) and seduces Union officials to give her more information for the Confederate cause. She is arrested by the head of the Union Army Security Bureau, Allan Pinkerton and place under house arrest and then later imprisoned in the Old Capitol Prison. Her eight year old daughter is imprisoned with her. After much maltreatment she is released and sent South. There she finds Judah P. Benjamin is the head of the Confederate Secret Service and has more work for her. This is the second in Francis Hamit's series of novels about the Confederate Secret Service and the women who were it's most effective agents. The first, "The Shenandoah Spy" overlaps this one in time but is not a prequel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Queen of Washington. To get started finding The Queen of Washington, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Brass Cannon Books

Release: 2011

ISBN: 1595951717

Description: This is a novel about Confederate spy Rose Greenhow which posits that she was also a spy for the French and British even before the Mexican War. It begins in 1850 in Mexico City and San Francisco with her involvement with Jose Y. Limatour and his notorious land claims, one of which was fro half of the City of San Francisco. Her husband, formerly a high State Department official, has been sent to examine California land claims in Mexico and lost his wife's affections to Limantour who may also be a French secret agent. Rose, a disciple of John C. Calhoun, aides the French and the British in their efforts to split the United States because it fits with her plans to keep the South a slave-owning nation. After her husband becomes friends with Judah P. Benjamin, a rising politician from Louisiana, and her husband;s apparent death, Benjamin, now a U.S Senator, helps her and she regains some of her former power as a Washington hostess and political operative and, after her friend James Buchanan becomes President, becomes the Queen of Washington; the most powerful woman in the land. After Lincoln is elected and the South tries to go its own way she organizes a spy ring and give the South the intelligence it needs to win at the first Battle of Mannassas (Bull's Run) and seduces Union officials to give her more information for the Confederate cause. She is arrested by the head of the Union Army Security Bureau, Allan Pinkerton and place under house arrest and then later imprisoned in the Old Capitol Prison. Her eight year old daughter is imprisoned with her. After much maltreatment she is released and sent South. There she finds Judah P. Benjamin is the head of the Confederate Secret Service and has more work for her. This is the second in Francis Hamit's series of novels about the Confederate Secret Service and the women who were it's most effective agents. The first, "The Shenandoah Spy" overlaps this one in time but is not a prequel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Queen of Washington. To get started finding The Queen of Washington, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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