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I was looking for Blount's involvement in the creation of the independent state of Franklin. Any clue where I might find something about that? DBritt

Possible Copyright Violation[edit]

I see lots of similarities to here: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/blount.htm

Someone should look into this as I'm not quite versed in the wikiquette of how to investigate this.

See Wikipedia:Copyright. We have the {{copyvio}} template for dealing with copyright violations. However, in this case, a .mil domain indicates the US government, and works of the US government would normally be public domain.

In fact, the link you give above is also given within the article, as one of the references. -- Curps 17:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strange sentence?[edit]

This sentence seems odd to me: "This second defeat in the South, the result of inadequate preparations, provided the young Blount a lesson that would stand him in good stead in later years". I added a fact tag, but it doesn't show any examples of how it was useful for him. --Awiseman 15:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unrelated Information[edit]

In the "Blount Conspiracy" section it says:

"At one session on January 30, a bizarre brawl erupted between two congressmen, Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold.[clarification needed]"

In researching, I learned that the incident was merely coincidental. Lyon spat tobacco juice at Griswold on Jan. 20, 1798, but the House declined to expel him. So, on Feb. 15, Griswold attacked and caned Lyon on the House floor for this "gross indecency," while Lyon defended himself with a pair of fire tongs. Other than the fact that the House was considering the Blount expulsion at the time, the incident was entirely unrelated. The House's own historical highlights page about the attack doesn't even mention the Blount case.^[1]

This may make a good annecdote for one or both men's pages, but it is only a distraction here. Historically, it was, at best, a distraction from Congresscritters droning on and on. I suggest that the sentence and accompanying art be transplanted to the two combatants' articles. /Bruce/ [aka Slasher] (talk) 18:49, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- Jreferee 23:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

^ "Representative Roger Griswold of Connecticut Attacked Matthew Lyon of Vermont on the House Floor". History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved 2019-12-18.

[1] "Representative Roger Griswold of Connecticut Attacked Matthew Lyon of Vermont on the House Floor". History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved 2019-12-18.

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