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Washington is one of 13 cities in the United States with teams from all four major professional men's sports and is home to one major professional women's team the Washington Wizards (National Basketball Association) the Washington Capitals (National Hockey League) and the Washington Mystics (Women's National Basketball Association) play at the Capital One Arena in Chinatown Nationals Park which opened in Southeast D.C in 2008 is home to the Washington Nationals (Major League Baseball) D.C United (Major League Soccer) plays at Audi Field the Washington Redskins (National Football League) play at FedExField in nearby Landover Maryland. . New Jersey 11,423 12,422 10,851 7,557 2,254 674 236 18 In 1846 after Polk ordered General Taylor's troops into the disputed territory Mexican forces attacked an American Army outpost ("Thornton Affair") in the occupied territory killing 12 U.S soldiers and capturing 52 These same Mexican troops later laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande. Polk cited this attack as an invasion of U.S territory and requested that the Congress declare war. Some of the British colonies attempted to abolish the international slave trade fearing that the importation of new Africans would be disruptive Virginia bills to that effect were vetoed by the British Privy Council Rhode Island forbade the import of enslaved people in 1774 All of the colonies except Georgia had banned or limited the African slave trade by 1786; Georgia did so in 1798 Some[which?] of these laws were later repealed. The acquisition was a source of controversy especially among U.S politicians who had opposed the war from the start a leading antiwar U.S newspaper the Whig National Intelligencer sardonically concluded that "We take nothing by conquest . Thank God.". Neutrals On August 28 1565 St Augustine Florida was founded by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles and he brought three African slaves with him During the 16th and 17th centuries St Augustine was the hub of the slave trade in Spanish colonial Florida and the first permanent settlement in the continental United States to include African slaves. . During the American Civil War tremendous resources were expended to defend Washington D.C which bordered on the Confederate States of America (with the Commonwealth of Virginia) from Confederate attack even though the relatively small federal government could easily have been moved elsewhere Likewise great resources were expended by the Confederacy in defending the Confederate capital from attack by the Union in its exposed location of Richmond Virginia barely 100 miles (160 km) south of Washington D.C.

. By 1870 the District's population had grown 75% from the previous census to nearly 132,000 residents. Despite the city's growth Washington still had dirt roads and lacked basic sanitation Some members of Congress suggested moving the capital further west but President Ulysses S Grant refused to consider such a proposal! .