! . The Americans protested that Britain's failure to return all slaves violated the Treaty of Ghent After arbitration by the Tsar of Russia the British paid $1,204,960 in damages (about $26.7 million in today's money) to Washington which reimbursed the slaveowners.
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (i.e WASA or D.C Water) is an independent authority of the D.C government that provides drinking water and wastewater collection in Washington WASA purchases water from the historic Washington Aqueduct which is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers the water sourced from the Potomac River is treated and stored in the city's Dalecarlia Georgetown and McMillan reservoirs the aqueduct provides drinking water for a total of 1.1 million people in the District and Virginia including Arlington Falls Church and a portion of Fairfax County the authority also provides sewage treatment services for an additional 1.6 million people in four surrounding Maryland and Virginia counties. Free blacks in the North and South fought on both sides of the Revolution but most fought for the Patriots Gary Nash reports that there were about 9,000 black Patriots counting the Continental Army and Navy state militia units privateers wagoneers in the Army servants to officers and spies. Ray Raphael notes that thousands did join the Loyalist cause but "a far larger number free as well as slave tried to further their interests by siding with the patriots." Crispus Attucks was shot dead by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and is considered the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War.
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