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. . Washington D.C is overwhelmingly Democratic having voted for the Democratic candidate solidly since 1964 Each Republican candidate was voted down in favor of the Democratic candidate by a margin of at least 56 percentage points each time; the closest albeit very large margin between the two parties in a presidential election was in 1972 when Richard Nixon secured 21.6 percent of the vote to George McGovern's 78.1 percent Since then the Republican candidate has never received more than 20 percent of the vote. The District of Columbia Public Charter School Board monitors the 52 public charter schools in the city. Due to the perceived problems with the traditional public school system enrollment in public charter schools has steadily increased as of fall 2010 D.C charter schools had a total enrollment of about 32,000 a 9% increase from the prior year the District is also home to 92 private schools which enrolled approximately 18,000 students in 2008 the District of Columbia Public Library operates 25 neighborhood locations including the landmark Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, On April 14 1865 just days after the end of the war Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth during the play Our American Cousin the next morning at 7:22 AM President Lincoln died in the house across the street the first American president to be assassinated Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton said "Now he belongs to the ages" (or perhaps "angels") the residents and visitors to the city experienced a wide array of reactions from stunned disbelief to rage Stanton immediately closed off most major roads and bridges and the city was placed under martial law Scores of residents and workers were questioned during the growing investigation and a handful was detained or arrested on suspicion of having aided the assassins or for a perception they were withholding information, Fugitive slave clause Dhaka Bangladesh (1971).

Further information: List of capitals in the United States, St Clair resigned his commission and Washington replaced him with Revolutionary War hero General Anthony Wayne From 1792 to 1793 Wayne instructed his troops on Indian warfare tactics and instilled discipline which was lacking under St Clair in August 1794 Washington sent Wayne into tribal territory with authority to drive them out by burning their villages and crops in the Maumee Valley. On August 24 the American army under Wayne's leadership defeated the western confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville in August 1795 opened up two-thirds of the Ohio Country for American settlement. The District of Columbia including Washington or adjoining Georgetown was the birthplace of several Union army generals and naval admirals as well as a leading Confederate commander, Privileges protecting members Passage Upper Potomac River Washington D.C. Business Directory. Self-taught or little formal education Washington D.C. Business Directory; For 400 years Maryland and Virginia have disputed control of the Potomac and its North Branch since both states' original colonial charters grant the entire river rather than half of it as is normally the case with boundary rivers in its first state constitution adopted in 1776 Virginia ceded its claim to the entire river but reserved free use of it an act disputed by Maryland Both states acceded to the Compact of 1785 and the 1877 Black-Jenkins Award which grants Maryland the river bank-to-bank from the low water mark on the Virginia side while permitting Virginia full riparian rights short of obstructing navigation. . A separate British force captured Alexandria on the south side of the Potomac River while Ross's troops were leaving Washington the mayor of Alexandria made a deal and the British refrained from burning the town, Dakar Senegal (1980 renewed 2006), 1.1 Roots of the conflict in North Mexico Junius Brutus Stearns 1851. Trees of the Potomac River Basin Two ships in a harbor one in the distance On board men stripped to the waist and wearing feathers in their hair are throwing crates into the water a large crowd mostly men is standing on the dock waving hats and cheering a few people wave their hats from windows in a nearby building. By getting constant reports from the battlefield Americans became emotionally united as a community News about the war always caused extraordinary popular excitement in the Spring of 1846 news about Zachary Taylor's victory at Palo Alto brought up a large crowd that met in a cotton textile town of Lowell Massachusetts New York celebrated the twin victories at Veracruz and Buena Vista in May 1847 Among fireworks and illuminations they had a "grand procession" of about 400,000 people.[citation needed] Generals Taylor and Scott became heroes for their people and later became presidential candidates.