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3 unusual facts about Augustus Caesar Buell


Augustus Caesar Buell

He later claimed that a visit to St. Petersburg in Russia on behalf of Cramp's, a few years later, enabled him to find important material for his first biographical project, the life of John Paul Jones.

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Two further biographies, of William Penn and Andrew Jackson, were published in the months following Buell's death, by which time suspicions of his work were already growing rapidly.

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Despite the suspicions, in 1905 a superb quotation from John Paul Jones was copied from Buell's biography for "Reef Points", the handbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen.



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