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. 5.1 Sessions The French detachment proved to be only about 50 men so Washington advanced on May 28 with a small force of Virginians and Indian allies to ambush them.[f] What took place was disputed but French forces were killed outright with muskets and hatchets French commander Joseph Coulon de Jumonville who carried a diplomatic message for the British to evacuate was mortally wounded in the battle French forces found Jumonville and some of his men dead and scalped and assumed that Washington was responsible. Washington placed blame on his translator for not communicating the French intentions. Dinwiddie congratulated Washington for his victory over the French. This incident ignited the French and Indian War which later became part of the larger Seven Years' War. ; George Boxley Rebellion (1815), Main article: Grand Review of the Armies. 4.2.5 United States Capitol Police, The Washington Metropolitan Area has a population of 6,131,977 as of 2014, The original charters are silent as to which branch from the upper Potomac serves as the boundary but this was settled by the 1785 Compact When West Virginia seceded from Virginia in 1863 the question of West Virginia's succession in title to the lands between the branches of the river was raised as well as title to the river itself Claims by Maryland to West Virginia land north of the South Branch (all of Mineral and Grant Counties and parts of Hampshire Hardy Tucker and Pendleton Counties) and by West Virginia to the Potomac's high-water mark were rejected by the Supreme Court in two separate decisions in 1910. 15.2 Media and primary sources In response to two antislavery petitions Georgia and South Carolina objected and were threatening to "blow the trumpet of civil war" Washington and Congress responded with a series of pro-slavery measures: citizenship was denied to black immigrants; slaves were barred from serving in state militias; two more slave states (Kentucky in 1792 Tennessee in 1796) were admitted; and the continuation of slavery in federal territories south of the Ohio River was guaranteed On February 12 1793 Washington signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act which overrode state laws and courts allowing agents to cross state lines to capture and return escaped slaves. Many in the north decried the law believing the act allowed bounty hunting and the kidnappings of blacks the Slave Trade Act of 1794 limiting American involvement in the Atlantic slave trade was also enacted!

! . Wikimedia Commons has media related to South Branch Potomac River, A delegation including John Adams and Benjamin Franklin met British admiral Richard Howe on Staten Island in New York Harbor on September 11 in what became known as the Staten Island Peace Conference Howe demanded that the Americans retract the Declaration of Independence which they refused to do and negotiations ended the British then seized New York City and nearly captured Washington's army They made New York their main political and military base of operations holding it until November 1783 the city became the destination for Loyalist refugees and a focal point of Washington's intelligence network.