Henry Clay
British inventor who, in 1772, introduced the technique of papier-mâché. This process, consisting of soaking paper strips in thin starchbased paste and applying them to a surface ...
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Henry Clay
Born April 12, 1777 (Hanover County, Virginia)
Died June 29, 1852 (Washington, D.C.)
Statesman, U.S. senator, congressman
Henry Clay, a Virginian by birth and a Kentuckian by choice, was a ...
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A Princely Domain.
On paper, the United States was an extremely large country at the close of the Revolutionary War. In the Treaty of Paris, which ended the war in 1783, the British ceded to the new ...
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The American political leader and secretary of state Henry Clay (1777-1852) came to national prominence as leader of the "War Hawks," who drove the country into the War of 1812. For the next 40 years ...
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During the construction of the United State's government, three curious and ambitious men became the stars of a Broadway show. John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay played vital and key rol...
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Henry Clay
Clay, Henry
Westward Expansion 1800-1860: Government and Politics
Henry Clay
