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. Washington decided that "The Government of the United States are determined that their Administration of Indian Affairs shall be directed entirely by the great principles of Justice and humanity" and provided that their land interests should be negotiated by treaties the administration regarded powerful tribes as foreign nations and Washington even smoked a peace pipe and drank wine with them at the Philadelphia presidential house. He made numerous attempts to conciliate them; he equated killing indigenous peoples with killing Whites and sought to integrate them into European American culture. Secretary of War Henry Knox also attempted to encourage agriculture among the tribes. Contents As the war progressed the overcrowding severely strained the city's water supply the Army Corps of Engineers constructed a new aqueduct that brought 10,000 US gallons (38,000 l; 8,300 imp gal) of fresh water to the city each day.[clarification needed] Police and fire protection was beefed up and work resumed to complete the unfinished dome of the Capitol Building However for most of the war Washington suffered from unpaved streets poor sanitation and garbage collection swarms of mosquitos facilitated by the dank canals and sewers and poor ventilation in most public (and private) buildings. This would change in the decade to follow under the leadership District Governor Alexander "Boss" Shepherd! A separate British force captured Alexandria on the south side of the Potomac River while Ross's troops were leaving Washington the mayor of Alexandria made a deal and the British refrained from burning the town.
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