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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Monroe , Elizabeth Kortwright 1768 -1830 (search)
Monroe, Elizabeth Kortwright 1768-1830
Wife of President James Monroe; born in New York City in 1768; married Monroe in 1786; accompanied her husband abroad in 1794 and 1803.
She was instrumental in obtaining the release of Madame Lafayette during the French Revolution.
She died in Loudon county, Va., in 1830.
Monroe, Elizabeth Kortwright 1768-1830
Wife of President James Monroe; born in New York City in 1768; married Monroe in 1786; accompanied her husband abroad in 1794 and 1803.
She was instrumental in obtaining the release of Madame Lafayette during the French Revolution.
She died in Loudon county, Va., in 1830.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Monroe , James 1759 -1870 (search)
Monroe, James 1759-1870
Fifth President of the United States; born in Westmoreland county, Va., April 28 emocratic caucus was held, at which the names of James Monroe and William H. Crawford (q. v.) were presented for nomination.
There were many who did not like Monroe who were ready to press the nomination of Crawford, an votes of the electoral colleges were counted, that Monroe had received the votes of all the States excepting ded as the dawning of an era of good feeling.
President Monroe had been urged by General Jackson, with whom h 17.
After his first term, so faithfully had President Monroe adhered to the promises of his inaugural addre electoral college.
Only one elector voted against Monroe, and but fourteen against Tompkins.
That reelectio n
Monroe's residence at Oak Hill, Va.
Tomb of Monroe. freedom and slavery marked a new departure.
All t ever since its enunciation, was proclaimed by President Monroe in his message to Congress on Dec. 2, 1823.
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Monroe, Fort
(official form), planned to be the most extensive military work in the United States.
Its construction was begun in 1819, and was completed at a cost of $2,500,000. It was named in honor of President Monroe.
Its walls, faced with heavy blocks of granite, were 35 feet in thickness and casemated below, and were entirely surrounded by a deep moat filled with water.
It stands upon a peninsula known as Old Point Comfort, which is connected with the main by a narrow isthmus of sand and by a bridge in the direction of the village of Hampton.
Fort Monroe in 1861. There were sixty-five acres of land within its walls, and it was armed with almost 400 great guns when the Civil War broke out. It had at that time a garrison of only 300 men, under Col. Justin Dimick, U. S. A. Its possession was coveted by the Confederates, but Dimick had turned some of its cannon landward.
These taught the Confederates, civil and military, prudence, wisdom, and discretion.
Gen. B. F. Butl
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Rodney, Cesar Augustus 1772-1824
Legislator; born in Dover, Del., Jan. 4, 1772; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789; admitted to the bar in 1793: elected to Congress from Delaware in 1803; became Attorney-General of the United States in 1807.
He served in the War of 1812; was appointed by President Monroe to report upon the status of the Spanish-American republics in 1817; reelected to Congress in 1820, and to the United States Senate in 1822; appointed minister to the Argentine Republic in 1823.
He published a Report upon the present State of the United provinces of South America (1819). He died in Buenos Ayres, South America, June 10. 1824.