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 ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as ... In 1778, during the Revolutionary War, Adams sailed to France to join benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee on a three-man commission ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer ... 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 ...

America’s first armed conflict with a foreign nation following the American Revolution was not the War of 1812, but rather a ...