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About 17% of D.C residents were age 18 or younger in 2010; lower than the U.S average of 24% However at 34 years old the District had the lowest median age compared to the 50 states as of 2010 there were an estimated 81,734 immigrants living in Washington D.C. Major sources of immigration include El Salvador Vietnam and Ethiopia with a concentration of Salvadorans in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Crispus Attucks was an iconic patriot; he was fatally shot by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre of 1770 and is thus considered the first American killed in the Revolution. . . Beijing China (1984 renewed 2004 and 2012) In August 1775 George III declared Americans to be traitors to the Crown if they took up arms against royal authority There were thousands of British and Hessian soldiers in American hands following their surrender at the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777 Lord Germain took a hard line but the British generals on American soil never held treason trials and treated captured American soldiers as prisoners of war the dilemma was that tens of thousands of Loyalists were under American control and American retaliation would have been easy the British built much of their strategy around using these Loyalists the British maltreated the prisoners whom they held resulting in more deaths to American prisoners of war than from combat operations. At the end of the war both sides released their surviving prisoners. . A locally elected mayor and a 13-member council have governed the District since 1973 However Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws D.C residents elect a non-voting at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives but the District has no representation in the Senate District voters choose three presidential electors in accordance with the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified in 1961. .

The District of Columbia Public Charter School Board monitors the 52 public charter schools in the city. Due to the perceived problems with the traditional public school system enrollment in public charter schools has steadily increased as of fall 2010 D.C charter schools had a total enrollment of about 32,000 a 9% increase from the prior year the District is also home to 92 private schools which enrolled approximately 18,000 students in 2008 the District of Columbia Public Library operates 25 neighborhood locations including the landmark Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, 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. Rear Admiral George Cockburn had commanded the squadron in Chesapeake Bay since the previous year On June 25 he wrote to Cochrane stressing that the defenses there were weak and he felt that several major cities were vulnerable to attack. Cochrane suggested attacking Baltimore Washington and Philadelphia On July 17 Cockburn recommended Washington as the target because of the comparative ease of attacking the national capital and "the greater political effect likely to result". General Ross commanded a 4,500-man army composed of the 4th (King's Own) Light 21st Royal North British Fusiliers 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot and 85th Regiment of Foot. 11.3 Inspiring all colonies Judicial appointments The selection or founding of a "neutral" capital city one unencumbered by regional or political identities was meant to represent the unity of a new state when Ankara Bern Canberra Madrid Ottawa and Washington became capital cities Sometimes the location of a new capital city was chosen to terminate squabbling or possible squabbling between various entities such as in the cases of Canberra Ottawa Washington Wellington and Managua. In 1831 Nat Turner a literate slave who claimed to have spiritual visions organized a slave rebellion in Southampton County Virginia; it was sometimes called the Southampton Insurrection Turner and his followers killed nearly 60 white inhabitants mostly women and children Many of the men in the area were attending a religious event in North Carolina. Eventually Turner was captured with 17 other rebels who were subdued by the militia. Turner and his followers were hanged and Turner's body was flayed In a frenzy of fear and retaliation the militia killed more than 100 slaves who had not been involved in the rebellion Planters whipped hundreds of innocent slaves to ensure resistance was quelled. 9.1.1 Liberalism Events leading to relatively weak governors without veto powers and with little appointing authority, Ad for the Federalist Southern theater and Yorktown Important political and military prisoners were often housed in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington including accused spies Rose Greenhow and Belle Boyd as well as partisan ranger John S Mosby One inmate Henry Wirz the commandant of the Andersonville Prison in Georgia was hanged in the yard of the prison shortly after the war for his cruelty and neglect toward the Union prisoners of war. . 1810 15,471 90.0% Washington D.C. Business Directory 12.1 Footnotes Surrender at Yorktown (1781) Washington D.C. Business Directory!