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Why would Jefferson want to collect scientific and military information about the Natives?

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Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 1789. "To carry on our war with success, we want able officers, and a sufficient number of soldiers. The former, time and trial can alone give us; to procure the latter, we need only the tender of sufficient inducements and the assiduous pressure of them on the proper subjects."

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