Aaron Burr had continued his excursion down…

January 1807 CE

Aaron Burr had continued his excursion down the Mississippi with Harman Blennerhasset and the small army of men that they had recruited in Ohio.

They intend to reach New Orleans, but in Bayou Pierre, thirty miles north of New Orleans, they learn Jefferson had issued an order for Burr's arrest, declaring him a traitor before any indictment.

Burr reads this in a newspaper in the Territory of Orleans on January 10, 1807.

Jefferson's warrant put Federal agents on his trail.

Burr and his men surrender at Bayou Pierre, and Burr is taken into custody.

Charges are brought against him in the Louisiana Territory, but Burr escapes toward Spanish Florida.

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Bayou Pierre Tensas Louisiana United States View →

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Aaron Burr View → Andrew Jackson View → Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquis of Casa Irujo View → James Wilkinson View → Thomas Jefferson View →

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New Spain, Viceroyalty of View → Santa Fe de Nuevo México (Spanish Colony) View → Texas, Spanish View → West Florida View → Spanish Florida View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Louisiana, Territory of (U.S.A.) View →

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Burr conspiracy View →

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Custom and Law View →

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