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Further information: Presidency of Zachary Taylor Government and politics 4.2 Prohibiting international trade 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. Before the secession of Texas Mexico comprised almost 1,700,000 sq mi (4,400,000 km2) but by 1849 it was just under 800,000 square miles (2,100,000 km2) Another 30,000 square miles (78,000 km2) were sold to the U.S in the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 so the total reduction of Mexican territory was more than 55% or 900,000 square miles (2,300,000 km2), Has the Mexican War terminated yet and how? are we beaten? Do you know of any nation about to besiege South Hadley [Massachusetts]? If so do inform me of it for I would be glad of a chance to escape if we are to be stormed I suppose [our teacher] Miss [Mary] Lyon would furnish us all with daggers and order us to fight for our lives .. 11 Barbary pirates 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.

9 Impact of the war in the United States, Maj Gen Advance on Puebla Washington proclaimed November 26 as a day of Thanksgiving in order to encourage national unity "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God to obey His will to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favor." He spent that day fasting and visiting debtors in prison to provide them with food and beer; . . The American Revolutionary War began on April 19 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston the colonists were divided over breaking away from British rule and split into two factions: Patriots who rejected British rule and Loyalists who desired to remain subject to the British King. General Thomas Gage was commander of British forces in America at the beginning of the war. Upon hearing the shocking news of the onset of war Washington was "sobered and dismayed" and he hastily departed Mount Vernon on May 4 1775 to join the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.