Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. He wrote it ne
A 1796 portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic-Republican Party
Alexander Hamilton, the founder of the Federalist Party
The Treaty of Alliance, also known as the Franco-American Treaty, was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States formed amid the American Revolutionary War with Great Bri
Benjamin Franklin's celebrity-like status in France helped win French support for the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull, 1820
Franco American treaty of alliance 6 feb 1778
Franco American treaty 1778