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Amphibians Disputed capitals The presence of United States troops on the edge of the disputed territory farthest from the Mexican settlements was not sufficient to provoke hostilities We were sent to provoke a fight but it was essential that Mexico should commence it it was very doubtful whether Congress would declare war; but if Mexico should attack our troops the Executive could announce "Whereas war exists by the acts of etc.," and prosecute the contest with vigor Once initiated there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it .. Upper Potomac River We reached Burrita about 5 pm many of the Louisiana volunteers were there a lawless drunken rabble They had driven away the inhabitants taken possession of their houses and were emulating each other in making beasts of themselves. . .

As specified by Article One of the United States Constitution in fact as one of the enumerated powers of section 8 Congress assumed direct administrative control of the federal district upon its creation by the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 There was no district governor or executive body the U.S House created a permanent Committee on the District of Columbia in January of 1808 and the U.S Senate established its counterpart in December 1816 These committees remained active until 1946. Thus the U.S Congress managed the detailed day-to-day governmental needs of the district through Acts of Congress -- an act authorizing the purchase of fire engines and construction of a firehouse for instance, or an act to commission three new city streets and closing two others in Georgetown. . ! In the afternoon of August 25 General Ross sent two hundred men to secure a fort on Greenleaf's Point the fort later known as Fort McNair had already been destroyed by the Americans but 150 barrels of gunpowder remained While the British were trying to destroy it by dropping the barrels into a well the powder ignited as many as thirty men were killed in the explosion and many others were maimed.