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Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson
For many of Thomas Jefferson's contemporaries, the greatest scandal of his life had nothing to do with Sally Hemings. It was his sudden and hasty -- his enemies said cowardly -- flight on horseback from Monticello on the morning of June 4, 1781, just as a squadron of invading British cavalrymen began to gallop up the little mountain toward his house.
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