Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . e city of Washington wasthrown into consternation. The cannon of thebrief conflict at Bladensburg echoed through thestreets of the metropolis. The whole populationfled from the city. The President, leaving in the White House, with her carriagedrawn up at the door to await his speedy return,hurried to meet the ofiicers in a council of
Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . e city of Washington wasthrown into consternation. The cannon of thebrief conflict at Bladensburg echoed through thestreets of the metropolis. The whole populationfled from the city. The President, leaving in the White House, with her carriagedrawn up at the door to await his speedy return,hurried to meet the ofiicers in a council of met our troops utterh- routed, and he could notgo back without danger of being captured. Butfew hours elapsed ere the Presidential Mansion,the Capitol, and all the public buildings in Wash-ington were in flames. The war closed after two years of fighting, andon February 13, 1815, the treaty of peace wassigned at Ghent. On the 4th of March, 1817, hissecond term of office expired, and he resigned thePresidential chair to his friend, James retired to his beautiful home at Montpelier, andthere passed the remainder of his days. On June28, 1836, at the age of eighty-five years, he fellasleep in death. Mrs Madison died July 12, TAMES MONROE. JAMES MONROE. n AM^S MONROE, the fifth President of theI United States, was born in WestmorelandQj County, Va., April 28, 1758. His early lifewas passed at the place of his nativity. His an-cestors had for many years resided in the provincein which he was born. When he was seventeenyears old, and in process of completing his educa-tion at William and Mary College, the ColonialCongress, assembled at Philadelphia to deliberateupon the unjust and manifold oppressions of GreatBritain, declared the separation of the Colonies,and promulgated the Declaration of he been born ten years before, it is highlyprobable that he would have been one of thesigners of that celebrated instrument. At thistime he left school and enli
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