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Henry Clay takes the floor of the Old Senate Chamber; Vice President Millard Fillmore presides as John C Calhoun (to the right of the Speaker's chair) and Daniel Webster (seated to the left of Clay) look on. 5.2 Defense of the war, Emory General Hospital Francis Lewis New York 2 Yes Yes; Washington first ordered a 60-mile search for Durham boats to transport his army and he ordered the destruction of vessels that could be used by the British He crossed the Delaware River at sunset Christmas Day and risked capture staking out the Jersey shoreline His men followed across the ice-obstructed river in sleet and snow at McKonkey's Ferry with 40 men per vessel Wind churned up the waters and they were pelted with hail but by 3 A.M they made it across with no losses. Henry Knox was delayed managing frightened horses and about 18 field guns on flat-bottomed ferries Cadwalader and Ewing failed to cross due to the ice and heavy currents and a waiting Washington doubted his planned attack on Trenton Once Knox arrived Washington proceeded to Trenton to take only his troops against the Hessians rather than risk being spotted returning his army to Pennsylvania, This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 10.3 Black Americans, The founding fathers were not unified on the issue of slavery in her study of Thomas Jefferson historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses this topic "Others of the founders held slaves but no other founder drafted the charter for freedom" in addition to Jefferson George Washington John Jay and many other of the Founding Fathers practiced slavery but were also conflicted by the institution which many saw as immoral and politically divisive. Conversely many founders such as Samuel Adams and John Adams were against slavery their entire lives Benjamin Rush wrote a pamphlet in 1773 which harshly condemned slavery and beseeched the colonists to petition the king and put an end to the British African Company of Merchants which kept slavery and the slave trade going the Continental Association of 1774 contains a clause severely limiting the slave trade as part of the general boycott of British trade, Union soldiers manning the Lower Battery at the north end of Chain Bridge in 1862. President James Madison military officials and his government fled the city in the wake of the British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg They eventually found refuge for the night in Brookeville a small town in Montgomery County Maryland which is known today as the "United States Capital for a Day" President Madison spent the night in the house of Caleb Bentley a Quaker who lived and worked in Brookeville Bentley's house known today as the Madison House still stands in Brookeville, Conceived in early planning sessions in 1959 Dulles is one of the few remaining airports to use the mobile lounge (also known as "plane mates" or "people movers") now only used for transport to the International Arrivals Building as well as transport for Concourse D They have all been given names based on the postal abbreviations of 50 states e.g VA MD AK, Territorial government Washington's army of 11,000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777 They suffered between 2,000 and 3,000 deaths in extreme cold over six months mostly from disease and lack of food clothing and shelter. Meanwhile the British were comfortably quartered in Philadelphia paying for supplies in pounds sterling while Washington struggled with a devalued American paper currency the woodlands were soon exhausted of game and by February morale and increased desertions ensued.

. Northwestern Mexico, The U.S Navy contributed to the war by controlling the coast and clearing the way for U.S troops and supplies especially to Mexico's main port of Veracruz Even before hostilities began in the disputed northern region the U.S Navy created a blockade Given the shallow waters of that portion of the Gulf coast the U.S Navy needed ships with a shallow draft rather than large frigates Since the Mexican Navy was almost non-existent the U.S Navy could operate unimpeded in Gulf waters, A few days after the defeat of the U.S troops by General Arista the Siege of Fort Texas began on May 3 1846 Mexican artillery at Matamoros opened fire on Fort Texas which replied with its own guns the bombardment continued for 160 hours and expanded as Mexican forces gradually surrounded the fort Thirteen U.S soldiers were injured during the bombardment and two were killed. Among the dead was Jacob Brown after whom the fort was later named. .