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5 Prairie lawyer Mexican territorial claims relinquished in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in white Mother's death General Clinton sent Benedict Arnold to Virginia now a British Brigadier General with 1,700 troops to capture Portsmouth and to spread terror from there; Washington responded by sending Lafayette south to counter Arnold's efforts. Washington initially hoped to bring the fight to New York drawing off British forces from Virginia and ending the war there but Rochambeau advised Grasse that Cornwallis in Virginia was the better target Grasse's fleet arrived off the Virginia coast and Washington saw the advantage He made a feint towards Clinton in New York then headed south to Virginia. Lincoln at Antietam Shortly after the Elizabeth Key trial and similar challenges in 1662 the Virginia royal colony approved a law adopting the principle of partus sequitur ventrem (called partus for short) stating that any children born in the colony would take the status of the mother a child of an enslaved mother would be born into slavery regardless if the father were a freeborn Englishman or Christian This was a reversal of common law practice in England which ruled that children of English subjects took the status of the father the change institutionalized the skewed power relationships between slave owners and slave women freed white men from the legal responsibility to acknowledge or financially support their mixed-race children and somewhat confined the open scandal of mixed-race children and miscegenation to within the slave quarters. . Washington the Soldier Painting of men in a formal political meeting 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.

. The architecture of Washington varies greatly Six of the top 10 buildings in the American Institute of Architects' 2007 ranking of "America's Favorite Architecture" are in the District of Columbia: the White House the Washington National Cathedral the Thomas Jefferson Memorial the United States Capitol the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial the neoclassical Georgian gothic and modern architectural styles are all reflected among those six structures and many other prominent edifices in Washington Notable exceptions include buildings constructed in the French Second Empire style such as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Kingdom of England: the traditional capital was the City of London while Westminster outside of the boundaries of the City of London was the seat of government They are both today part of the urban core of Greater London.