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Dulles originally used airport code DIA the initials of Dulles International Airport When handwritten it was often misread as DCA the code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport so in 1968 Dulles' code was changed to IAD. .

The Mexican Cession shown in red and the later Gadsden Purchase shown in yellow. The Impending Crisis of the South, In Santa Fe Governor Manuel Armijo wanted to avoid battle but on August 9 Catholic priests Diego Archuleta (the young regular-army commander) and the young militia officers Manuel Chaves and Miguel Pino forced him to muster a defense. Armijo set up a position in Apache Canyon a narrow pass about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the city. However on August 14 before the American army was even in view he decided not to fight (An American named James Magoffin claimed he had convinced Armijo and Archuleta to follow this course; an unverified story says he bribed Armijo.) When Pino Chaves and some of the militiamen insisted on fighting Armijo ordered the cannon pointed at them the New Mexican army retreated to Santa Fe and Armijo fled to Chihuahua. The House Financial Services committee meets Committee members sit in the tiers of raised chairs while those testifying and audience members sit below. . Washington arrived in Philadelphia on May 9 1787 though a quorum was not attained until Friday May 25 Benjamin Franklin nominated Washington to preside over the convention and he was unanimously elected to serve as president general the convention's state-mandated purpose was to revise the Articles of Confederation with "all such alterations and further provisions" required to improve them and the new government would be established when the resulting document was "duly confirmed by the several states". Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia introduced Madison's Virginia Plan on May 27 the third day of the convention it called for an entirely new constitution and a sovereign national government which Washington highly recommended. Marriage and children 7 Finance, Rear Admiral George Cockburn had commanded the squadron in Chesapeake Bay since the previous year On June 25 he wrote to Cochrane stressing that the defenses there were weak and he felt that several major cities were vulnerable to attack. Cochrane suggested attacking Baltimore Washington and Philadelphia On July 17 Cockburn recommended Washington as the target because of the comparative ease of attacking the national capital and "the greater political effect likely to result". General Ross commanded a 4,500-man army composed of the 4th (King's Own) Light 21st Royal North British Fusiliers 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot and 85th Regiment of Foot, Nullification Crisis Reenactors in U.S (left) and Mexican (right) uniforms of the period; George Washington Virginia 2 Yes Yes Abigail Adams expressed to her husband the president the desire of women to have a place in the new republic: "I desire you would remember the Ladies and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.". !