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10.1 Notes There is also a ghost town which is currently the de jure capital of a territory: Plymouth in Montserrat, 2.7 Religion Further information: History of Washington D.C and Timeline of Washington D.C; 4 Organic Act of 1871 1998 66.2% 92,504 30.2% 42,280! The British navy bombarded unstable earthworks on lower Manhattan Island. Washington with misgivings heeded the advice of Generals Greene and Israel Putnam to defend Fort Washington They were unable to hold it and Washington abandoned it despite General Charles Lee's objections as his army retired north to White Plains. Howe's pursuit forced Washington to retreat across the Hudson River to Fort Lee to avoid encirclement Howe then landed his troops on Manhattan in November and captured Fort Washington inflicting high casualties on the Americans Washington was responsible for delaying the retreat though he blamed Congress and Nathanael Greene Loyalists in New York considered Howe a liberator and spread a rumor that Washington had set fire to the city. Patriot morale reached its lowest when Lee was captured. 1988 82.6% 159,407 14.3% 27,590, As of the 1860 Census one may compute the following statistics on slaveholding:, Washington Gas is the city's natural gas utility and serves over one million customers in the District and its suburbs Incorporated by Congress in 1848 the company installed the city's first gas lights in the Capitol the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue. Initial skirmish at the Nueces Strip Virginia 292,627 346,671 392,518 425,153 469,757 449,087 472,528 490,865! .

. . . 6.5 Northwestern Mexico Organization of American States: Washington D.C This house on Duke Street houses the Freedom House Museum with exhibits on the slave trade and the lives of slaves. When the SR-71 was retired by the military in 1990 one was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale California to Dulles setting a coast-to-coast speed record at an average 2,124 mph (3,418 km/h) the trip took 64 minutes the aircraft was placed in a storage building to await display; . After 1830 abolitionist and minister William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation characterizing slaveholding as a personal sin He demanded that slaveowners repent and start the process of emancipation His position increased defensiveness on the part of some southerners who noted the long history of slavery among many cultures a few abolitionists such as John Brown favored the use of armed force to foment uprisings among the slaves as he did at Harper's Ferry Most abolitionists tried to raise public support to change laws and to challenge slave laws Abolitionists were active on the lecture circuit in the North and often featured escaped slaves in their presentations the eloquent Frederick Douglass became an important abolitionist leader after escaping from slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was an international bestseller and aroused popular sentiment against slavery it also provoked the publication of numerous anti-Tom novels by Southerners in the years before the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln insisted that construction on the United States Capitol dome continue during the American Civil War; 1861.