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The Continental Army Further Diminished By Expiring Short-term Enlistments And By January 1776 Was Reduced By Half To 9,600 Men Had To Be Supplemented With Militia And Was Joined By Knox With Heavy Artillery Captured From Fort Ticonderoga. When The Charles River Froze Over Washington Was Eager To Cross And Storm Boston But General Gates And Others Were Opposed To Untrained Militia Striking Well Garrisoned Fortifications Washington Reluctantly Agreed To Secure Dorchester Heights 100 Feet Above Boston In An Attempt To Force The British Out Of The City. On March 9 Under Cover Of Darkness Washington's Troops Brought Up Knox's Big Guns And Bombarded British Ships In Boston Harbor By March 17 9,000 British Troops And Loyalists Began A Chaotic 10-day Evacuation Of Boston Aboard 120 Ships Soon After Washington Entered The City With 500 Men With Strict Orders Not To Plunder The City He Ordered Vaccinations Against Smallpox To Great Effect As He Did Later In Morristown New Jersey. He Refrained From Exerting Military Authority In Boston Leaving Civilian Matters In The Hands Of Local Authorities.[j]
; The U.S settlers surging into the newly conquered Southwest were openly contemptuous of Mexican law (a civil law system based on the law of Spain) as alien and inferior and disposed of it by enacting reception statutes at the first available opportunity However they recognized the value of a few aspects of Mexican law and carried them over into their new legal systems for example most of the southwestern states adopted community property marital property systems as well as water law, Many black slaves sided with the Loyalists Tens of thousands in the South used the turmoil of war to escape and the southern plantation economies of South Carolina and Georgia were disrupted in particular During the Revolution the British tried to turn slavery against the Americans. Historian David Brion Davis explains the difficulties with a policy of wholesale arming of the slaves:, John Trumbull The Amistad. Consolidated 1871 A group of men sitting at a table as another man creates money on a wooden machine, 6 Fauna of the Potomac River and its Basin.
Louisiana was founded as a French colony Colonial officials in 1724 implemented Louis XIV of France's Code Noir which regulated the slave trade and the institution of slavery in New France and French Caribbean colonies This resulted in a different pattern of slavery in Louisiana purchased in 1803 compared to the rest of the United States as written the Code Noir gave some rights to slaves including the right to marry Although it authorized and codified cruel corporal punishment against slaves under certain conditions it forbade slave owners from torturing them or separating married couples (or to separate young children from their mothers) it also required the owners to instruct slaves in the Catholic faith, See also: Streets and highways of Washington D.C.; Neighborhoods in Washington D.C.; and List of tallest buildings in Washington D.C. . .
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