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. Other professional and semi-professional teams in Washington include: Old Glory DC (Major League Rugby) the Washington Kastles (World TeamTennis); the Washington D.C Slayers (USA Rugby League); the Baltimore Washington Eagles (U.S Australian Football League); the D.C Divas (Independent Women's Football League); and the Potomac Athletic Club RFC (Rugby Super League) the William H.G FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park hosts the Citi Open Washington is also home to two major annual marathon races: the Marine Corps Marathon which is held every autumn and the Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon held in the spring the Marine Corps Marathon began in 1976 and is sometimes called "The People's Marathon" because it is the largest marathon that does not offer prize money to participants, Important thinkers[show] First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1864), 7.2 The Civil War Congress passed the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 that officially organized the District and placed the entire territory under the exclusive control of the federal government Further the unincorporated area within the District was organized into two counties: the County of Washington to the east of the Potomac and the County of Alexandria to the west. After the passage of this Act citizens living in the District were no longer considered residents of Maryland or Virginia which therefore ended their representation in Congress. Other proposals The expansion of the interstate slave trade contributed to the "economic revival of once depressed seaboard states" as demand accelerated the value of slaves who were subject to sale, Washington D.C. Business Directory, West Point espionage. On May 8 Zachary Taylor and 2,400 troops arrived to relieve the fort. However General Arista rushed north and intercepted him with a force of 3,400 at Palo Alto the U.S Army employed "flying artillery" their term for horse artillery a type of mobile light artillery that was mounted on horse carriages with the entire crew riding horses into battle it had a devastating effect on the Mexican army in contrast to the "flying artillery" of the Americans the Mexican cannons at the Battle of Palo Alto fired at such slow velocities that it was possible for American soldiers to dodge artillery rounds the Mexicans replied with cavalry skirmishes and their own artillery the U.S flying artillery somewhat demoralized the Mexican side and seeking terrain more to their advantage the Mexicans retreated to the far side of a dry riverbed (resaca) during the night it provided a natural fortification but during the retreat Mexican troops were scattered making communication difficult, This 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled the Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard, Kitzmiller Hancock Williamsport Shepherdstown About 600,000 slaves were transported to America or 5% of the 12 million slaves taken from Africa About 310,000 of these persons were imported into the Thirteen Colonies before 1776: 40% directly and the rest from the Caribbean. . . On November 6 Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States He was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.:61 Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes or 39.8% of the total in a four-way race He won the free Northern states as well as California and Oregon.:350. .

. Gentry vividly remembered a day in New Orleans when he and the nineteen-year-old Lincoln came upon a slave market Pausing to watch Gentry recalled looking down at Lincoln's hands and seeing that he "doubled his fists tightly; his knuckles went white." Men wearing black coats and white hats buy field hands "black and ugly," for $500 to 800 and then the real horror begins: "When the sale of "fancy girls" began Lincoln "unable to stand it any longer," muttered to Gentry "Allen that's a disgrace If I ever get a lick at that thing I'll hit it hard.". Although the President and military officers returned to Washington only a few days after the British left Congress did not return for three and half weeks the Thirteenth Congress officially convened on September 19 1814 at the Blodgett's Hotel one of the few surviving buildings large enough to hold all members the Blodgett's Hotel also housed the U S Patent Office Although the British had destroyed all public buildings the Blodgett's Hotel and U.S Patent Office was spared it was in this building that Congress met between September 1814 and December 1815 (when construction of the Old Brick Capitol was complete). During the War of 1812 British Royal Navy commanders of the blockading fleet based at the Bermuda dockyard were instructed to offer freedom to defecting American slaves as the Crown had during the Revolutionary War Thousands of escaped slaves went over to the Crown with their families Men were recruited into the Corps of Colonial Marines on occupied Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Further information: Presidency of James K Polk, Tourism is Washington's second-largest industry Approximately 18.9 million visitors contributed an estimated $4.8 billion to the local economy in 2012 the District also hosts nearly 200 foreign embassies and international organizations such as the World Bank the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the Organization of American States the Inter-American Development Bank and the Pan American Health Organization in 2008 the foreign diplomatic corps in Washington employed about 10,000 people and contributed an estimated $400 million annually to the local economy. Washington D.C. Business Directory Washington Monument Washington D.C. . Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.