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Following their victory at the Battle of Bladensburg the British entered Washington D.C burning down buildings including the White House. ; 4.5 Treatment A term of Congress is divided into two "sessions" one for each year; Congress has occasionally been called into an extra or special session a new session commences on January 3 each year unless Congress decides differently the Constitution requires Congress meet at least once each year and forbids either house from meeting outside the Capitol without the consent of the other house, President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers 3 Modern capitals 13 External links In 1788 Washington declined a suggestion from a leading French abolitionist Jacques Brissot to establish an abolitionist society in Virginia stating that although he supported the idea the time was not yet right to confront the issue the historian Henry Wiencek (2003) believes based on a remark that appears in the notebook of his biographer David Humphreys that Washington considered making a public statement by freeing his slaves on the eve of his presidency in 1789 the historian Philip D Morgan (2005) disagrees believing the remark was a "private expression of remorse" at his inability to free his slaves. Other historians agree with Morgan that Washington was determined not to risk national unity over an issue as divisive as slavery. Washington never responded to any of the antislavery petitions he received and the subject was not mentioned in either his last address to Congress or his Farewell Address. Second Battle of Tabasco Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon Black slaveholders At the beginning of the war Washington's only defense was one old fort (Fort Washington 12 miles (19 km) away to the south) and the Union Army soldiers themselves. When Maj Gen George B McClellan assumed command of the Department of the Potomac on August 17 1861 he became responsible for the capital's defense. McClellan began by laying out lines for a complete ring of entrenchments and fortifications that would cover 33 miles (53 km) of land He built enclosed forts on high hills around the city and placed well-protected batteries of field artillery in the gaps between these forts, augmenting the 88 guns already placed on the defensive line facing Virginia and south in between these batteries interconnected rifle pits were dug allowing highly effective co-operative fire. This layout once complete would make the city one of the most heavily defended locations in the world and almost unassailable by nearly any number of men. End of slavery Protestant churches that had separated from the Church of England (called "dissenters") were the "school of democracy" in the words of historian Patricia Bonomi. Before the Revolution the Southern Colonies and three of the New England Colonies had officially established churches:[clarification needed] Congregational in Massachusetts Bay Connecticut and New Hampshire and Anglican in Maryland Virginia North-Carolina South Carolina and Georgia New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations had no officially established churches. Church membership statistics from the period are unreliable and scarce, but what little data exists indicates that Anglicans were not in the majority not even in the colonies where the Church of England was the established church and they probably did not comprise even 30 percent of the population (with the possible exception of Virginia). . . .

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