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The Potomac River surges over the deck of Chain Bridge during the historic 1936 flood the bridge was so severely damaged by the raging water and the debris it carried that its superstructure had to be re-built; the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1939 (This photograph was taken from a vantage point on Glebe Road in Arlington County Virginia the houses on the bluffs in the background are located on the Potomac Palisades of Washington DC.). 1860 presidential election The sarcophagi of George (right) and Martha Washington at the present tomb's entrance. Washington D.C formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C. is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country Washington was named after George Washington the first president of the United States and a Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations Washington is an important world political capital the city located on the Potomac River bordering Maryland and Virginia is one of the most visited cities in the world with more than 20 million tourists annually. ; 6.1 Landmarks Union nationalism as envisioned by Lincoln "helped lead America to the nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.":222; Kearny and his troops encountered no Mexican forces when they arrived on August 15 Kearny and his force entered Santa Fe and claimed the New Mexico Territory for the United States without a shot being fired Kearny declared himself the military governor of the New Mexico Territory on August 18 and established a civilian government American officers with a background in law drew up a temporary legal system for the territory called the Kearny Code.

John Jay was president of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779 and negotiated the Treaty of Paris with Adams and Franklin. !