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Main article: Loyalist (American Revolution), President James Madison military officials and his government fled the city in the wake of the British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg They eventually found refuge for the night in Brookeville a small town in Montgomery County Maryland which is known today as the "United States Capital for a Day" President Madison spent the night in the house of Caleb Bentley a Quaker who lived and worked in Brookeville Bentley's house known today as the Madison House still stands in Brookeville, Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not so all of them for myself I was bitterly opposed to the measure and to this day regard the war which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation it was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory. .

There is also a ghost town which is currently the de jure capital of a territory: Plymouth in Montserrat Main articles: Quebec Act and Intolerable Acts. The first clear indication that Washington was seriously intending to free his own slaves appears in a letter written to his secretary Tobias Lear in 1794. Washington instructed Lear to find buyers for his land in Western Virginia explaining in a private coda that he was doing so "to liberate a certain species of property which I possess very repugnantly to my own feelings." the plan along with others Washington considered in 1795 and 1796 could not be realized because of his failure to find buyers for his land his reluctance to break up slave families and the refusal of the Custis heirs to help prevent such separations by freeing their dower slaves at the same time. . . Source: National Weather Service, The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor the airport was dedicated by President John F Kennedy and Eisenhower on November 17 1962 as originally opened the airport had three runways (current day runways 1C/19C 1R/19L and 12/30) Its original name Dulles International Airport was changed in 1984 to Washington Dulles International Airport. .