John Adams was many things ... Nevertheless, he managed to avoid a retaliatory war with France through diplomacy. Adams was the first president to take up residence in the President’s House (the ...

Adams' second stay in France was disastrous ... he accomplished little during his five years there. In 1788 John and Abigail sailed for home, traveling as a couple at long last.

Meanwhile Adams establishes his new residence at Richmond Hill in New ... Adams announces the appointment of a peace mission to France. July 26: John Quincy marries the Anglo-American Louisa ...

From the moment John Adams entered the presidency in 1797, the United States was in a state of undeclared war with France. The Quasi-War, as it was known, dominated his presidency, monopolizing ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest ... In 1778 the 10-year-old accompanied his father on his first diplomatic mission to France. He spent most of the next eight years living with ...

They had plenty to tell one another during the months (sometimes years) that John was away from home ... not Samuel Adams -- the "famous Adams" -- John laments being anonymous in France, in ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will ... When Jefferson arrived in Paris in 1784 to join Benjamin Franklin and Adams as ministers to France, Adams much admired and liked Jefferson.

John Adams was many things ... Nevertheless, he managed to avoid a retaliatory war with France through diplomacy. Adams was the first president to take up residence in the President’s House (the ...