From the moment John Adams entered the presidency in 1797 ... "It would be cowardly not to take up arms." To the delight of the High Federalists, war preparations were under way.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be ... The relationship was sometimes tumultuous, but they were, in the end, comrades in arms. Douglas Ambrose: When Jefferson arrived in Paris ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat ... which had already been secretly supplying arms to America. The Dutch were hesitant. The worst American defeat of the war ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...