''The Adventures of Uncle Sam, in Search After his Lost Honor'' is an

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book published in 1816 written by Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy. The book was written in

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and contains 162 pages. It was republished in 1971 by Liberty House, a division of Gregg Press, in

Saddle River, New Jersey Saddle River is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located just over northwest of Manhattan. The town is known for its natural fields, farmland, forests, and rivers, and has a bucolic atmos ...

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/ref> The book is a satire on the policies leading up to the

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States, United States of America and its Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom ...

and the events of that war, modeled after John Arbuthnot's 1712 ''The Law is a Bottomless Pit'', and his immediately following ''History of John Bull.''p. 40-41 of Albert Matthews,
Uncle Sam
. ''

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'', v.19, 1908. pp.21–65. Albert Matthews, writing in the ''

'' in 1908, asserted that this book was the first use in literature (as distinct from newspapers) of the term

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to personalise the United States.

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