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Under Washington the Virginia Regiment had defended 300 miles (480 km) of frontier against 20 Indian attacks in 10 months. He increased the professionalism of the regiment as it increased from 300 to 1,000 men and Virginia's frontier population suffered less than other colonies Some historians have said this was Washington's "only unqualified success" during the war. Though he failed to realize a royal commission he gained valuable knowledge of British tactics self-confidence and leadership skills the destructive competition Washington witnessed among colonial politicians fostered his later support of strong central government. ! In 1846 after Polk ordered General Taylor's troops into the disputed territory Mexican forces attacked an American Army outpost ("Thornton Affair") in the occupied territory killing 12 U.S soldiers and capturing 52 These same Mexican troops later laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande. Polk cited this attack as an invasion of U.S territory and requested that the Congress declare war. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1864), Reference to the Rio Grande boundary of Texas was omitted from the US Congress's annexation resolution to help secure passage after the annexation treaty failed in the Senate President Polk claimed the Rio Grande boundary and when Mexico sent forces over the Rio Grande this provoked a dispute!

When detailed studies were issued by the Corps in the 1950s they met sustained opposition led by U.S Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas resulting in the plans' abandonment the only dam project that did get built was Jennings Randolph Lake on the North Branch the Corps built a supplementary water intake for the Washington Aqueduct at Little Falls in 1959, The American Revolution has a central place in the American memory as the story of the nation's founding It is covered in the schools memorialized by a national holiday and commemorated in innumerable monuments George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon was one of the first national pilgrimages for tourists and attracted 10,000 visitors a year by the 1850s. . .