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Amos Stoddard (October 26, 1762 – May 11, 1813) was a career United States Army officer who served in both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, in which he was mortally wounded. In 1804, Stoddard was the Commandant of the military district of Upper Louisiana, after the Louisiana Purchase. ==Biography== Stoddard was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, to Anthony and Phebe (Reed) Stoddard. He saw combat as a young man in the American Revolutionary War, and afterwards represented Hallowell, Maine, in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.〔(A History of the Law: The Courts, And the Lawyers of Maine, from Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century by William Willis ) ISBN 1-58477-628-5〕〔'Old Hallowell on the Kennebac,' Emma Huntington Nason, 1909, pg. 136-137〕 In June 1798, he was commissioned as a captain of artillery in the US Army. In 1800 Spain ceded Louisiana back to France in the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso. Three years later, Napoleon promptly sold it to the United States to obtain money to continue his campaigns in Europe. Nevertheless, Spain had continued to govern the territory and refused to give Lewis and Clark permission to explore it. This forced Lewis and Clark to spend the winter of 1803-04 at Camp Dubois, in what is now Illinois. On November 30, 1803, in New Orleans, Spain formally turned the territory over to France, which governed it for only 20 days before surrendering it to the United States on December 20, 1803.〔(The Spanish Regime in Missouri by Louis Houck - 1909 )〕 During the Three Flags Day ceremony on March 9–10, 1804, in Saint Louis, Stoddard represented both the United States and France. Stoddard noted about the residents: :Nothing ever restrains them from amusement which usually commences early in the evening, and is seldom suspended till late the next morning.〔(The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830 By Richard C. Wade - 1996 ) ISBN 0-252-06422-4〕 Stoddard held the position as a military commander until October 1, 1804, when the territory came under William Henry Harrison, in a transitional civil jurisdiction as part of the Indiana Territory. He was promoted to the rank of major in June 1807. He was a member of Kennebec Lodge #5 A. F. and A. M in Hallowell, Maine,〔(History of Kennebec Lodge A.F. & A.M. - Hallowell, Maine )〕 and delivered the oration at the first anniversary of the chartering of the lodge on St. John's Day 1797. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amos Stoddard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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