In 1825, he was ordered to USS Brandywine and was with the crew when it carried General Marquis de Lafayette back to France under the leadership of U.S. Navy Captain Charles Morris.

Now in Europe, Midshipman Page was transferred to USS Constitution where he served with this U.S. Navy Mediterranean Squadron ship until it returned to the port of Boston, Massachusetts on Independence Day, 1828.

In 1830–1834, Passed Midshipman and Sailing Master Richard Page served on board USS Concord with the U.S. Navy Mediterranean Squadron.

On March 26, 1834, Richard Page was commissioned a U.S. Navy Lieutenant and was ordered to serve on USS Enterprise which was going overseas.

Upon returning to the United States in 1845, he served with the docked USS Pennsylvania at the U.S. Navy Norfolk Naval Ship Yard.

Upon returning from Africa, Page was back at Norfolk, this time as an executive officer and a Member of the Retiring Board.

Navy captain a short time later, Page went on to establish the ordnance and construction depot located at Charlotte, North Carolina, which he would largely manage during the period of 1861–1864.

Brigadier General Page was in command of the Confederate garrison that controlled Fort Morgan, Alabama during the Union's attacks on Mobile Bay.

Union task force staff summoned Page and told him to surrender; he replied that he would defend the fort to the end.

On August 23 Brigadier General Richard Lucian Page unconditionally surrendered the fort, because his troops had little usable gunpowder.

[2] He died in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, on August 9, 1901[3] and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia.

USS Richard L. Page, a Brooke-class frigate built for the United States Navy in 1965, was named in his honor.