James R Porter MD

Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871 which repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and created a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. President Grant appointed Alexander Robey Shepherd to the position of governor in 1873 Shepherd authorized large-scale projects that greatly modernized the City of Washington but ultimately bankrupted the District government in 1874 Congress replaced the territorial government with an appointed three-member Board of Commissioners, Other important personalities of the Civil War born in the immediate Washington area included Confederate Senator Thomas Jenkins Semmes Union general John Milton Brannan John Rodgers Meigs (whose death sparked a significant controversy throughout the North) and Confederate brigade commander Richard Hanson Weightman. By late September Patriot-French forces completely surrounded Yorktown trapped the British army and prevented British reinforcements from Clinton in the North while the French Navy was victorious at the Battle of the Chesapeake the final American offensive was begun with a shot fired by Washington the siege ended with a British surrender on October 19 1781; over 7,000 British soldiers were captured in the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. Washington negotiated the terms of surrender for two days and the official signing ceremony took place on October 19; Cornwallis in fact claimed illness and was absent sending General Charles O'Hara as his proxy. As a gesture of goodwill Washington held a dinner for the American French and British generals all of whom fraternized on friendly terms and identified with one another as members of the same professional military caste, Peter or Gordon a whipped slave photo taken at Baton Rouge Louisiana 1863; the guilty overseer was fired, The North Fork South Branch below Seneca Rocks in Pendleton County West Virginia; ! Legal issues As of 2010 over 90% of D.C residents had health insurance coverage the second-highest rate in the nation This is due in part to city programs that help provide insurance to low-income individuals who do not qualify for other types of coverage a 2009 report found that at least 3% of District residents have HIV or AIDS which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) characterizes as a "generalized and severe" epidemic, 5.2 Prices of slaves Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Congress created the Continental Army on June 14 1775 and Samuel Adams and John Adams nominated Washington to become its commander in chief Washington was chosen over John Hancock because of his military experience and the belief that a Virginian would better unite the colonies He was considered an incisive leader who kept his "ambition in check." He was unanimously elected commander in chief by Congress the next day. Washington D.C. Business Directory Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans that existed in the United States of America in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 it lasted in about half the states until 1865 when it was prohibited nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment As an economic system slavery was largely replaced by sharecropping and convict leasing. Asian 3.5% 1.8% 0.6% 0.2% Education Washington D.C. Business Directory, two boxes with red dots and blue dots, Federal Triangle on Pennsylvania Avenue; the U.S federal government accounts for about 29% of D.C jobs. !

. ! . ! First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1864), Europol: the Hague A replica of the first "Bear Flag" now at El Presidio de Sonoma or Sonoma Barracks.