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10.2 Citations Numerous universities including George Washington University and Washington University in St Louis were named in honor of Washington, Proposals for Texas northwestern boundary Secession of Southern States Igbo Landing slave escape and mass suicide (1803). . Other professional and semi-professional teams in Washington include: Old Glory DC (Major League Rugby) the Washington Kastles (World TeamTennis); the Washington D.C Slayers (USA Rugby League); the Baltimore Washington Eagles (U.S Australian Football League); the D.C Divas (Independent Women's Football League); and the Potomac Athletic Club RFC (Rugby Super League) the William H.G FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park hosts the Citi Open Washington is also home to two major annual marathon races: the Marine Corps Marathon which is held every autumn and the Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon held in the spring the Marine Corps Marathon began in 1976 and is sometimes called "The People's Marathon" because it is the largest marathon that does not offer prize money to participants, While a smaller number of African slaves were kept and sold in England, slavery in Great Britain had not been authorized by statute there in 1772 it was made unenforceable at common law in England and Wales by a legal decision the large British role in the international slave trade continued until 1807 Slavery flourished in most of Britain's colonies with many wealthy slave owners living in England and holding considerable power, John Sullivan New Hampshire 1 Yes Main article: Geography of Washington D.C! Main articles: Sugar Act Currency Act Quartering Acts Stamp Act 1765 and Declaratory Act Washington D.C. Business Directory. Henry Wisner New York 1 Yes Parliament sought to punish Massachusetts colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing the Coersive Acts which Washington referred to as "an Invasion of our Rights and Privileges". He said Americans must not submit to acts of tyranny since "custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway". That July he and George Mason drafted a list of resolutions for the Fairfax County committee which Washington chaired and the committee adopted the Fairfax Resolves calling for a Continental Congress. On August 1 Washington attended the First Virginia Convention where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress as tensions rose in 1774 he assisted in the training of county militias in Virginia and organized enforcement of the Continental Association boycott of British goods instituted by the Congress. . . Letter to Lafayette Slaves on J J Smith's cotton plantation near Beaufort South Carolina photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan standing before their quarters in 1862.

Major sub-basins and cities of the Potomac River basin, South Carolina 107,094 146,151 196,365 251,783 315,401 327,038 384,984 402,406 6.1 Cabinet and executive departments John Witherspoon New Jersey 2 Yes Yes. 7 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Congress immediately adjourned for the day upon news of Washington's death and the Speaker's chair was shrouded in black the next morning the funeral was held four days after his death on December 18 1799 at Mount Vernon where his body was interred Cavalry and foot soldiers led the procession and six colonels served as the pallbearers the Mount Vernon funeral service was restricted mostly to family and friends. Reverend Thomas Davis read the funeral service by the vault with a brief address followed by a ceremony performed by various members of Washington's Masonic lodge in Alexandria Virginia. Congress chose Light-Horse Harry Lee to deliver the eulogy Word of his death traveled slowly; church bells rang in the cities and many places of business closed. People worldwide admired Washington and were saddened by his death and memorial processions were held in major cities of the United States Martha wore a black mourning cape for one year and she burned their correspondence to protect their privacy Only five letters between the couple are known to have survived two letters from Martha to George and three from him to her. . George Ross Pennsylvania 2 Yes Yes, Seoul South Korea (2006) Organizations[show], On July 9 70 sailors and marines landed at Yerba Buena and raised the American flag Later that day in Sonoma the Bear Flag was lowered and the American flag was raised in its place. Main article: History of the United States Congress Miniature of George Washington by Robert Field (1800).