Monroe, James

Ash Lawn-Highland

Portrait to Come (Hidden)
Charlottesville, VA — A working plantation with a modest house, it was completed for James Monroe and his family in 1799; includes period furniture, personal artifacts, and extensive grounds.

Battle of Brandywine

Portrait to Come (Hidden)
PA — 11 September 1777.

Battle of Germantown

Portrait to Come (Hidden)
PA — 4 October 1777.

Battle of Harlem Heights

Portrait to Come (Hidden)
New York, NY — 16 September 1776.

Battle of Monmouth

Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, c. 1853
NJ — 28 June 1778.

Battle of Trenton

Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851
NJ — 26 December 1776 (Second Battle of Trenton, 2 January 1777).

Battle of White Plains

Portrait to Come (Hidden)
NY — 28 October 1776.

James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library

Portrait to Come (Hidden)
Fredericksburg, VA — The fifth president of the U.S., Monroe fought at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. The museum contains personal artifacts, furnishings, and papers.

The most inadvertently prophetic words that Adams ever uttered were his last: Thomas Jefferson survives. For it was the Jeffersonian image that broke free of the aggregated anonymity, the founders or the fathers, and eventually ascended into heaven with Washington. During the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Jeffersonian legacy became the most adaptable and all-purpose political touchstone in American political history.

— Joseph J. Ellis
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1993)