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See also:WHISKY INSURRECTION, THE , an uprising in Western See also:Pennsylvania in 1794 against the Federal See also:Government, occasioned by the attempted enforcement of the See also:excise See also:law (enacted by See also:Congress See also:March 1791) on domestic See also:spirits. The See also:common See also:prejudice in See also:America against excise in any See also:form was See also:felt with especial strength in Western Pennsylvania, See also:Virginia and See also:North Carolina, where many small whisky stills existed; and protests were made almost immediately by the Pennsylvanians. See also:Albert See also:Gallatin (q.v.) took a leading See also:part in expressing their resentment in a constitutional manner, but under the agitator See also:David See also:Bradford the See also:movement soon See also:developed into excesses. The See also:attempt to enforce the law led to stormy scenes and riotous violence, the Federal See also:revenue See also:officers in some cases being tarred and feathered; but in See also:September 1794 See also:President See also:Washington, using the new See also:powers bestowed by Congress in May 1792, despatched a considerable force of See also:militia against the rebellious Pennsylvanians, who thereupon submitted without bloodshed, the See also:influence of Gallatin being used to that end. Bradford fled to New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans; some of his more prominent supporters were tried for See also:treason and convicted, but promptly pardoned. In See also:American See also:history this so-called " See also:rebellion " is important chiefly on See also:account of the emphasis it gave to the employment by the Federal Executive of the new powers bestowed by Congress for interfering to enforce Federal See also:laws within the states. It is indeed inferred from one of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton's own letters that his See also:object in proposing this excise law was less to obtain revenue than to provoke just such a See also:local resistance as would enable the central government to demonstrate its strength.
(Results expressed in grams per soo litres of See also:absolute See also:alcohol.)
Description. Alcohol Non-
per cent See also:Total See also:Acid. volatile See also:Esters. Higher See also:Aldehydes. Furfurol.
by vol. 1 Acid. See also:Alcohols.
See also:Dublin Whiskies 71.72 7 Trace 34 145 I2 5'5
12 Pot-still (new) .
Pot-still. From same 57.08 29 8 38 185 68 3.3
distillery, 14 years
old (See also:plain See also:wood)
2. Pot-still (new) 74.11 6 Nil 28 233 8 4' 1
2a. Pot-still. From same 60.47 32 8 47 264 21 4'4
distillery, 14 years
old . .
3. Pot-still, 14 years old 63'42 87 45 87 226 32 4'5
4. Patent-still (new) . 70.76 17 Trace 25 38 ..
1 Irish whisky is generally distilled at about 5o O.P. and reduced with See also:water to 25 O.P. See also:prior to storage. 2 Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 represent different distilleries.
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