Charles Willson Peale Wikimedia Commons Public Domain 2 Gouverneur Morrissignedthe Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution before serving as an ambassador to France andin the US Senate. Morris resembled George Washingtonin appearance, although he experiencedsevere burnsas a child and...
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Charles Willson Peale: portrait of James MadisonJames Madison, watercolor on ivory by Charles Willson Peale, 1783. The Confederation Congress hadconvenedin May 1787 toamendtheArticles of Confederation. Among the problems they intended to address were the lack of anexecutivebranch, the inability of ...
William ClarkWilliam Clark, portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1810; in Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia. American explorer Print Written by Jay H. Buckley Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University. Author ofWilliam Clark: Indian Diplomat;By His Own Hand?: The Mysteri...
Charles Willson Peale Wikimedia Commons Public Domain 2 Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Perished After Giving Himself A Whalebone Catheter Gouverneur Morrissignedthe Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution before serving as an ambassador to France andin the US Senate. Morris resembled...
William ClarkWilliam Clark, portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1810; in Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia. Lewis procured weapons atHarpers Ferry, Virginia (now inWest Virginia), supervised the construction of a 55-foot (17-metre) keelboat, and secured smallervessels, in addition ...
William ClarkWilliam Clark, portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1810; in Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.(more) Lewis procured weapons at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), supervised the construction of a 55-foot (17-metre) keelboat, and secured smaller vessels, in...
Charles Willson Peale: portrait of James MadisonJames Madison, watercolor on ivory by Charles Willson Peale, 1783. 2 of 2 Madison, James: home in Montpelier, VirginiaJames Madison's home in Montpelier, Virginia. Madisonwas born at the home of his maternal grandmother. The son and namesake of...
Charles Willson Peale: portrait of the comte de RochambeauJean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1782; in Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia. Rochambeau and his troops arrived inNewport,Rhode Island, in July 1780 and waited nearly ...
Meriwether LewisMeriwether Lewis, portrait by Charles Willson Peale; in Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia. 2 of 2 The impact of the Louisiana Purchase on the U.S.Overview of the Louisiana Purchase. See all videos for this article ...