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The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial - James Monroe stood on a frozen battlefield, blood soaking his coat, a bullet buried near his heart. He didn’t fall.
He wasn’t chasing glory. He was fighting for a vision- the American experiment.
Before he became the fifth president of the United States, Monroe was a 17-year-old from Virginia who left college to join the American Revolution. At the Battle of Trenton, he rowed across the icy Delaware River alongside Washington’s ragged army. They were starving, outgunned, frostbitten and defiant and when that musket ball tore into the chest of James Monroe, a doctor pressed his thumb against the artery to keep him alive.
General Washington later said, “That young man turned the tide.” And that bullet would remain in James Monroe’s body for the rest of his life, the scar, hidden beneath his statesman’s attire years later, would define his presidency.
Monroe lacked Jefferson’s eloquence or Madison’s intellect. He wasn’t a visionary or a wordsmith. He was a fighter and the last Founding Father who shed blood for independence. His life was a fantastic paradox: he was a warrior who hated war and a diplomat who navigated ruined cities in the week of the war of 1812, yet he clung to hope for peace.
The untold story of James Monroe isn’t just about governance. It’s about resilience in a nation on the brink of fracture.
When he took office in 1817, America was scarred from the War of 1812. Washington, D.C., lay in ruins. The economy teetered. States stood divided. Monroe didn’t counter with grand orations or catchy phrases. He chose to be present. He became the only president to traverse the young nation while in office, traveling thousands of miles by horse and carriage. Crowds of farmers, laborers, and veterans gathered to meet him. The press dubbed it “The Era of Good Feelings,” but it was less about harmony and more about sheer determination to keep the country whole.
His defining legacy, the Monroe Doctrine, wasn’t born of bravado but of weariness. Europe’s empires kept eyeing the Americas, treating fledgling nations as pawns. Monroe, who knew the cost of war firsthand, drew a line: “No more colonies here.” It wasn’t a boast — it was a warning from a man who’d bled for freedom and refused to see it eroded.
Stay away from the west.
When he died on July 4, 1831 — five years to the day after Jefferson and Adams — the nation he’d helped forge barely paused to mourn him.
But perhaps that’s the heart of Monroe’s story. He wasn’t a man of rhetoric or statues. He was a man of grit and stoicism, the kind who steadied a damaged nation as it was still learning to stand.
He once said, “National honor is the national property of the highest value.”
Maybe that’s his true legacy — not in words or memorials, but in the image of a young man, bleeding on a battlefield, refusing to fall because he believed the nation he fought for would one day also keep its footing.
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The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial - Wrong.
The founding fathers were settlers.
George Washington was a land surveyor & saw this land before all others.
•Settlers go where there is nothing and build.
•Immigrants go where there is something and add.
•Illegals go where there is greatness and take.
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VanDammit™ @ChaosAgent_42
The founding fathers were immigrants.
Immigration is what built this country.
The lesson is over.
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