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. . 1 Family and childhood On July 18 Cochrane ordered Cockburn to "deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages . You are hereby required and directed to destroy and lay waste such towns and districts as you may find assailable". Cochrane instructed "You will spare merely the lives of the unarmed inhabitants of the United States" Ross and Cockburn surveyed the torching of the President's Mansion during which time a great storm arose unexpectedly out of the southeast They were confronted a number of times while on horseback by older women from around Washington City and elderly clergymen (Southern Presbyterian and Southern Baptist) with women and children who had been hiding in homes and churches They requested protection from abuse and robbery by enlisted personnel from the British Expeditionary Forces whom they accused of having tried to ransack private homes and other buildings Major-General Ross had two British soldiers put in chains for violation of his general order Throughout the events of that day a severe storm blew into the city worsening on the night of August 24 1814. . . 1 Washington D.C during the early stages of the War, imported into British North America Mexicans and Indians in the annexed territories faced a loss of civil and political rights even though the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo promised U.S citizenship to all Mexican citizens living in the territory of the Mexican Cession the U.S government withheld citizenship from Indians in the southwest until the 1930s although they were citizens under Mexican law. .

. ; Soon after signing the act Washington began work on the project He along with Thomas Jefferson personally oversaw the process as plans were developed and implemented. Even as the project began to move forward some held out hope that it would fail and that the capital would remain permanently in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania's congressional delegation attempted to undermine the plan by introducing legislation allocating funds for federal buildings and a house for the president in Philadelphia, From 1970 to 2009 the House expanded delegates along with their powers and privileges representing U.S citizens in non-state areas beginning with representation on committees for Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in 1970 in 1971 a delegate for the District of Columbia was authorized and in 1972 new delegate positions were established for U.S Virgin Islands and Guam 1978 saw an additional delegate for American Samoa and another for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands began in 2009 These six members of Congress enjoy floor privileges to introduce bills and resolutions and in recent congresses they vote in permanent and select committees in party caucuses and in joint conferences with the Senate They have Capitol Hill offices staff and two annual appointments to each of the four military academies While their votes are constitutional when Congress authorizes their House Committee of the Whole votes recent Congresses have not allowed for that and they cannot vote when the House is meeting as the House of Representatives.