$100,000-dollar bill Ireland: Butler Fitzsimons McHenry and Paterson Romero led an Indian force to the house of Governor Charles Bent where they broke down the door shot Bent with arrows and scalped him in front of his family They moved on leaving Bent still alive With his wife Ignacia and children and the wives of friends Kit Carson and Thomas Boggs the group escaped by digging through the adobe walls of their house into the one next door When the insurgents discovered the party they killed Bent but left the women and children unharmed. .
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. The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest research and museum complex. Lincoln's portrait appears on two denominations of United States currency the penny and the $5 bill His likeness also appears on many postage stamps and he has been memorialized in many town city and county names,:194 including the capital of Nebraska. While he is usually portrayed bearded he first grew a beard in 1860 at the suggestion of 11-year-old Grace Bedell, Howe emboldened by his Long Island victory dispatched Washington as "George Washington Esq." in futility to negotiate peace Washington declined demanding to be addressed with diplomatic protocol as general and fellow belligerent not as a "rebel" lest his men be hanged as such if captured, Washington D.C has fifteen official sister city agreements Each of the listed cities is a national capital except for Sunderland which includes the town of Washington the ancestral home of George Washington's family. Paris and Rome are each formally recognized as a partner city due to their special one sister city policy. Listed in the order each agreement was first established they are:. . .
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