According to the tradition, The Rokeby House, located just south of Leesburg, housed the most important government documents while the British invaded Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812 ...

The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it ...

Arkansas has always had its share of unique and unusual inhabitants. Independent, outspoken and sometimes rash in behavior, ...

The archaeological excavation of what remains of Founding Father James Monroe's residence in Albemarle County, Highland, resumed this month.

James Monroe (b. April 28, 1758 in ... In addition to serving as secretary of state, he served as secretary of war from 1814 to 1815, during the War of 1812. Presidency. Monroe was sworn into office ...

When Madison submitted—and Congress approved—a war declaration in June 1812, ... Four contenders thus went into the general election, ... The Writings of James Monroe (G. P. Putnam’s ...

He served as minister to France, Secretary of War and then Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Madison and Monroe. The Election of 1824 Today, Jackson would be declared the winner.

In particular, he seems to be calling for the renewal of the classic Monroe Doctrine in some form – that fundamental American policy, announced by President James Monroe in 1823, that structured ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

10. James Monroe - 66 years . Rounding out the list of the oldest U.S. presidents in history is the country’s fifth president, James Monroe. He was also the last president to serve from the Founding ...

Monroe sent Andrew Jackson to take a military force into Spanish-owned Florida to battle the Seminoles. Jackson wound up seizing the Spanish capital of Pensacola. In the end, Spain sold the territory ...