Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brazil (1897) Rufus King Massachusetts 1 Yes. . Many of the military leaders on both sides of the American Civil War of 1861-1865 had trained at the U.S Military Academy at West Point and had fought as junior officers in Mexico This list includes military men fighting for the Union: Ulysses S Grant George B McClellan William T Sherman George Meade and Ambrose Burnside Military men who joined the Southern secessionists of the Confederacy included Robert E Lee Stonewall Jackson James Longstreet Joseph E Johnston Braxton Bragg Sterling Price and the future Confederate President Jefferson Davis Both sides had leaders with significant experience in active combat in strategy and in tactics likely[original research?] shaping ways the civil-war conflict played out, Washington D.C. Business Directory; . . . Henry Laurens was president of the Continental Congress when the Articles were passed on November 15 1777 Stephen Hopkins Rhode Island 2 Yes Yes. 5.2 Joint sessions Provisions 6.4 Indian affairs Monthly Mean Data for Water Years 1930 - 2018, The Spanish and the Dutch became allies of the French in 1779 and 1780 respectively forcing the British to fight a global war without major allies and requiring it to slip through a combined blockade of the Atlantic Britain began to view the American war for independence as merely one front in a wider war, and the British chose to withdraw troops from America to reinforce the sugar-producing Caribbean colonies which were more lucrative to British investors British commander Sir Henry Clinton evacuated Philadelphia and returned to New York City General Washington intercepted him in the Battle of Monmouth Court House the last major battle fought in the north After an inconclusive engagement the British retreated to New York City the northern war subsequently became a stalemate as the focus of attention shifted to the smaller southern theater.
. . ; Culture Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is designated the administrative capital and the location of the parliament while the former capital Colombo is now designated as the "commercial capital". However many government offices are still located in Colombo Both cities are in the Colombo District. .
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