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The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1961 granting the District three votes in the Electoral College for the election of president and vice president but still no voting representation in Congress, Washington was concerned with Howe's movements during the Saratoga campaign to the north and he was also aware that Burgoyne was moving south toward Saratoga from Quebec Washington took some risks to support Gates' army sending reinforcements north with Generals Benedict Arnold his most aggressive field commander and Benjamin Lincoln On October 7 1777 Burgoyne tried to take Bemis Heights but was isolated from support by Howe He was forced to retreat to Saratoga and ultimately surrendered after the Battles of Saratoga as Washington suspected Gates's victory emboldened his critics. Biographer John Alden maintains "It was inevitable that the defeats of Washington's forces and the concurrent victory of the forces in upper New York should be compared." the admiration for Washington was waning including little credit from John Adams. British commander Howe resigned in May 1778 left America forever and was replaced by Sir Henry Clinton. . In 1940 Congress passed a law authorizing creation of an interstate compact to coordinate water quality management among states in the Potomac basin Maryland West Virginia Pennsylvania Virginia and the District of Columbia agreed to establish the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin the compact was amended in 1970 to include coordination of water supply issues and land use issues related to water quality. The Utah Territory is shown in blue and outlined in black the boundaries of the provisional State of Deseret are shown with a dotted line.

Rear Admiral George Cockburn had commanded the squadron in Chesapeake Bay since the previous year On June 25 he wrote to Cochrane stressing that the defenses there were weak and he felt that several major cities were vulnerable to attack. Cochrane suggested attacking Baltimore Washington and Philadelphia On July 17 Cockburn recommended Washington as the target because of the comparative ease of attacking the national capital and "the greater political effect likely to result". General Ross commanded a 4,500-man army composed of the 4th (King's Own) Light 21st Royal North British Fusiliers 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot and 85th Regiment of Foot, Main article: American Revolutionary War Flora of the Potomac River Basin. . Over time a large civil rights movement arose to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans, The Washington Metropolitan Area has a population of 6,131,977 as of 2014, Many of the Founding Fathers were under 40 years old at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776: Alexander Hamilton was 19 Aaron Burr was 20 Gouverneur Morris was 24 the oldest were Benjamin Franklin 70 and Samuel Whittemore 81.