The Jefferson Allegiance (Presidential Collection) (Quantity 1)

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The 4th of July 1826. As Thomas Jefferson lies dying, he offers his a part of his Jefferson Cipher to Edgar Allen Poe, with directions to take the disks to West Level. In Massachusetts, John Adams entrusts his a part of the Cipher to Colonel Thayer, the superintendent of the Navy Academy. As Thayer rides away, Adams utters his ultimate phrases: “Thomas Jefferson survives.”

Within the current, Inexperienced Beret Paul Ducharme has been recalled from Afghanistan after the ‘unintended’ loss of life of his greatest good friend, the son of one of many Philosophers. Whereas Ducharme is visiting his good friend’s gravesite in Arlington, an outdated man is executed by a member from the Society of Cincinnati often called the Surgeon, who’s searching for to assemble all of the items of the cipher. In a close-by restaurant, former CIA and now Curator at Monticello, Evie Tolliver, waits anxiously for her mentor to reach, however he’s killed by the identical murderer on the Zero Milestone. His coronary heart and the Thinker’s head are displayed as a grisly message on prime of the stone, echoing Jefferson’s well-known head-heart letter.

Ducharme and Tolliver, the unknowing heirs to grow to be the following era of caretakers of the Jefferson Allegiance, group up and should battle the Surgeon to assemble the Cipher and discover the Jefferson Allegiance, a doc that has stored the steadiness of energy in the US for over two centuries.

The story is a race again by historical past and the founding of the nation.

THE FACTS:The Society of the Cincinnati was based in Could of 1783. A number one member was Alexander Hamilton, and the primary President of the Society was George Washington. Thomas Jefferson was not allowed membership. The Society of the Cincinnati is the oldest, steady army society in North America. It has its present headquarters on the Anderson Home in downtown Washington, DC.

In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson, well-known for his robust opposition to a standing military, established the United State Navy Academy, the oldest Navy Academy in North America. In 1819, Thomas Jefferson based the College of Virginia, the primary faculty in the US to separate faith from schooling and was a member of the American Philosophical Society. It has its present headquarters in Philosophical Corridor on Liberty Sq. in Philadelphia.

“The tree of liberty have to be refreshed every so often with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson 1787.