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. Washington retreated across the Delaware to Pennsylvania but returned to New Jersey on January 3 launching an attack on British regulars at Princeton with 40 Americans killed or wounded and 273 British killed or captured. American Generals Hugh Mercer and John Cadwalader were being driven back by the British when Mercer was mortally wounded then Washington arrived and led the men in a counterattack which advanced to within 30 yards (27 m) of the British line. Further information: Civil War Defenses of Washington, Christopher Gadsden South Carolina 1 Yes End of slavery. Main articles: Theater in Washington D.C and Music of Washington D.C, Mount Pleasant General Hospital. Further information: Civil War Defenses of Washington, Main article: American Revolutionary War Texas annexation A variety of fish inhabit the Potomac including bass muskellunge pike walleye the northern snakehead an invasive species resembling the native bowfin lamprey and American eel was first seen in 2004. Many types of sunfish are also present in the Potomac and its headwaters. Although rare bull sharks can be found. Crime Washington D.C. Business Directory Blue Ridge Blueberry.

; Eastman Johnson's 1863 painting "The Lord is My Shepherd", The river forms part of the borders between Maryland and Washington D.C on the left descending bank and West Virginia and Virginia on the river's right descending bank the majority of the lower Potomac River is part of Maryland Exceptions include a small tidal portion within the District of Columbia and the border with Virginia being delineated from "point to point" (thus various bays and shoreline indentations lie in Virginia) Except for a small portion of its headwaters in West Virginia the North Branch Potomac River is considered part of Maryland to the low water mark on the opposite bank the South Branch Potomac River lies completely within the state of West Virginia except for its headwaters which lie in Virginia, Thirteenth Amendment to the US constitution 18 Dec 1865. Another popular local daily is the Washington Times the city's second general interest broadsheet and also an influential paper in conservative political circles the alternative weekly Washington City Paper also has a substantial readership in the Washington area. Surrender at Yorktown (1781) Washington D.C. Business Directory, Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area the country's sixth largest had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents. In February 1754 Dinwiddie promoted Washington to lieutenant colonel and second-in-command of the 300-strong Virginia Regiment with orders to confront French forces at the Forks of the Ohio. Washington set out for the Forks with half of the regiment in April but soon learned that a French force of 1,000 had begun construction of Fort Duquesne there in May Washington had set up a defensive position at Great Meadows when he learned that the French had made camp 7 miles (11 km) away Washington decided to take the offensive in pursuit of the French contingent.