•1811: The charter for the Rothschilds Bank of the United States runs out and Congress votes against its renewal.  Nathan Mayer Rothschild is not amused and he states, "Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war."
Nathan Meyer Rothschild, in a painting c.1815 entitled a pillar of the exchange by Richard Dighton