James Madison University is named eponymously to ... Madison fought against the British during the American Revolution and the War of 1812 — where he became the first American president to ...

James Madison defeated DeWitt Clinton in 1812 to secure a second term in the White House. To commemorate his inauguration, a craftsman from Paris made him a crystal flute. The flute eventually ...

The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed ... D.C., which had barely 8,000 residents. (President James Madison’s Attorney General Richard Rush called ...

Major Acts: British seizure of American seamen pushed James Madison to ask Congress for a declaration of war in June 1812. The United States entered the conflict without a strong military.

President James Madison and first lady Dolley Madison fled ... The confident young nation had declared war on Great Britain in 1812, in response to repeated violations of American maritime rights ...

Lizzo made history at a concert on Tuesday – by playing a 200-year-old flute that once belonged to President James Madison ... the War of 1812. However, first lady Dolley Madison rescued ...