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Washington D.C. Business Directory, 4.5 Treatment 13.3 Bibliography The most famous group of deserters from the U S Army was the Saint Patrick's Battalion or (San Patricios) composed primarily of several hundred immigrant soldiers the majority Catholic Irish and German immigrants who deserted the U.S Army because of ill-treatment or sympathetic leanings to fellow Mexican Catholics and joined the Mexican army the battalion also included Canadians English French Italians Poles Scots Spaniards Swiss and Mexican people many of whom were members of the Catholic Church, On January 6 1759 Washington at age 26 married Martha Dandridge Custis the 28 year-old widow of wealthy plantation owner Daniel Parke Custis the marriage took place at Martha's estate; She was intelligent and gracious and experienced in managing a planter's estate and the couple created a happy marriage. They raised John Parke Custis (Jacky) and Martha Parke (Patsy) Custis children from her previous marriage and later their grandchildren Eleanor Parke Custis (Nelly) and George Washington Parke Custis (Washy) Washington's 1751 bout with smallpox is thought to have rendered him sterile though it is equally likely "Martha may have sustained injury during the birth of Patsy her final child making additional births impossible." They lamented the fact that they had no children together. They moved to Mount Vernon near Alexandria where he took up life as a planter of tobacco and wheat and emerged as a political figure. ; Effects on Southern economic development, The Mexican Cession shown in red and the later Gadsden Purchase shown in yellow, Time zone UTC-5 (EST) Northwest Ordinance. American Slavery As it Is, Reconstruction 2 Social background and commonalities, Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is designated the administrative capital and the location of the parliament while the former capital Colombo is now designated as the "commercial capital". However many government offices are still located in Colombo Both cities are in the Colombo District! Scott then marched westward on April 2 1847 toward Mexico City with 8,500 healthy troops while Santa Anna set up a defensive position in a canyon around the main road about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of Veracruz near the hamlet of Cerro Gordo Santa Anna had entrenched with 12,000 troops and artillery that were trained on the road where he expected Scott to appear However Scott had sent 2,600 mounted dragoons ahead and they reached the pass on April 12 the Mexican artillery prematurely fired on them and therefore revealed their positions beginning the Battle of Cerro Gordo. .

. . In 1885 Congress proclaimed Washington's birthday to be a federal holiday. Twentieth-century biographer Douglas Southall Freeman concluded "The great big thing stamped across that man is character." Modern historian David Hackett Fischer has expanded upon Freeman's assessment defining Washington's character as "integrity self-discipline courage absolute honesty resolve and decision but also forbearance decency and respect for others". .