James Monroe actually said...

In execution of the law of the last session for the suppression of the slave trade some of our public ships have also been employed on the c...

Considerable progress has also been made in the construction of ships of war, some of which have been launched in the course of the present ...

Our military positions have been maintained at Belle Point, on the Arkansas, at Council Bluffs, on the Missouri, at St. Peters, on the Missi...

Our peace with the powers on the coast of Barbary has been preserved, but we owe it altogether to the presence of our squadron in the Medite...