Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . 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 officers in a council of met our troops utter
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . 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 officers in a council of met our troops utterly 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 Febniarj 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, \JU JAMES MONROE. 3AM:gS MONROE, the fifth President of the United States, was born in WestmorelandCounty, April 28, 1758. His early life |\v:is passed at the place of his nativity. His an- |cestors had for many years resided in the provincein which he was bom. When he was seventeen |years old, and in process of completing his educa-tion at William and Mar\- College, the ColonialCongress, assembled at Philadelphia to deliberate 1upon the and manifold oppressions of Great Britain, declared the .separation of the Colonies,and i>romulgated the Declaration of one of thesigners of that celebrated instniment. At thistime he left school and enlisted among the pa-triots. He joined the army when everything lookedhopeless and gloomy. The
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