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; 8 Capitals in military strategy General Clinton sent Benedict Arnold to Virginia now a British Brigadier General with 1,700 troops to capture Portsmouth and to spread terror from there; Washington responded by sending Lafayette south to counter Arnold's efforts. Washington initially hoped to bring the fight to New York drawing off British forces from Virginia and ending the war there but Rochambeau advised Grasse that Cornwallis in Virginia was the better target Grasse's fleet arrived off the Virginia coast and Washington saw the advantage He made a feint towards Clinton in New York then headed south to Virginia; . Main article: Geography of Washington D.C; Washington has had a significant African American population since the city's foundation. African American residents composed about 30% of the District's total population between 1800 and 1940 the black population reached a peak of 70% by 1970 but has since steadily declined due to many African Americans moving to the surrounding suburbs Partly as a result of gentrification there was a 31.4% increase in the non-Hispanic white population and an 11.5% decrease in the black population between 2000 and 2010, On February 22 1847 Santa Anna personally marched north to fight Taylor with 20,000 men Taylor with 4,600 men had entrenched at a mountain pass called Buena Vista Santa Anna suffered desertions on the way north and arrived with 15,000 men in a tired state He demanded and was refused surrender of the U.S Army; he attacked the next morning Santa Anna flanked the U.S positions by sending his cavalry and some of his infantry up the steep terrain that made up one side of the pass while a division of infantry attacked frontally along the road leading to Buena Vista Furious fighting ensued during which the U.S troops were nearly routed but managed to cling to their entrenched position thanks to the Mississippi Rifles a volunteer regiment led by Jefferson Davis who formed them into a defensive V formation the Mexicans had inflicted considerable losses but Santa Anna had gotten word of upheaval in Mexico City so he withdrew that night leaving Taylor in control of part of Northern Mexico, On March 5 1770 a large crowd gathered around a group of British soldiers the crowd grew threatening throwing snowballs rocks and debris at them One soldier was clubbed and fell. There was no order to fire but the soldiers fired into the crowd anyway They hit 11 people; three civilians died at the scene of the shooting and two died after the incident the event quickly came to be called the Boston Massacre the soldiers were tried and acquitted (defended by John Adams) but the widespread descriptions soon began to turn colonial sentiment against the British This in turn began a downward spiral in the relationship between Britain and the Province of Massachusetts; . .