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Beers with our Founding Fathers

the Non-Intercourse Act, which only restricted trade specifically with

England and France. Because companies in the United States had
suffered significant financial losses, they continued to trade with

England and France, thereby subjecting themselves to acts of
aggression by those countries. In retaliation, Madison called for a

declaration of war – citing that these continued aggressions were
acts of war. In June of 1812 war was declared and it soon became

apparent that the navy of England remained far superior to our own.
Now known as the War of 1812, and continued into 1814 –

Madison’s second term as president. In 1814 England invaded the
United States, landing first in Maryland and by August making their

way to the nation’s capital. With this invasion Madison and the
federal government abandoned the capital city and English troops

burned nearly the whole of the city, including the White House and
capitol building. In 1815, future president, General Andrew Jackson

defeated England’s troops at the Battle of New Orleans, resulting in
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the Treaty of Ghent on December 24 1814. Madison’s term ended
in 1817, and with his wife Dolley, returned to their Montpelier
Estate in Virginia.

Quotes of James Madison

 After his death, his 1834 message, ‘Advice to My Country,’
was released: "The advice nearest to my heart and deepest
in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished

and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a

Pandora with her box opened; and the disguised one, as the
Serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into Paradise."

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