Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette
Identifier: unitedstateshist00ridp (find matches)
Title: United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York, The United States history co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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CHAPTER LIII. ADAMSS ADMINISTBA TION, 1825-1839. THE new President was inaugurated on the 4th of March, 1825.He was a man of the highest attainments in literature and states-manship. At the age of eleven years he accompanied his father, JohnAdams, to Europe, At Paris and Amsterdam and St. Petersburg theson continued his studies, and at the same time became acquaintedwith the manners and politics of the Old World. The vast opportu-nities of his youth were improved to the fullest extent. In his riperyears he served his country as ambassador to the Netherlands, Portu 424 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. gal, Prussia, Russia and England. Such were his abilities in the fielclof diplomacy as to elicit from Washington the extraordinary praise ofbeing the ablest minister of which America could boast. His life, from1794 till 1817, was devoted almost wholly to diplomatical services atthe various European capitals. At that critical period when the rela-tions of the United States with foreign nation