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. 7 Civil War and emancipation Meridian Hill Park in Columbia Heights Northwest Washington D.C, Kingdom of France: the traditional capital was Paris though from 1682-1789 the seat of government was at the Palace of Versailles located in a rural area southwest of Paris, 10.1 Abolition and emancipation 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. . Sister cities Other enactments The 1832 boundaries of Comancheria the Comanche homeland. Revolutionary era Washington D.C. Business Directory 6.2.3 Whiskey Rebellion. !

During the early spring of 1791 Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant began working on a plan for the capital city that identified the future sites of the "Congress House" (the United States Capitol) and the "President's House" (the White House). Design competitions were then held to solicit designs for each of those structures Architect James Hoban was selected to design the President's House while no satisfactory drawings were submitted for the Capitol a late submission by William Thornton was selected for the Capitol. Stephen Hallet was hired to oversee construction which got underway in September 1793 Hallet proceeded to make alterations to the design against the wishes of Washington and Jefferson and was subsequently dismissed George Hadfield was hired in October 1795 as superintendent of construction but resigned three years later in May 1798 due to dissatisfaction with Thornton's plan and quality of work done thus far. . 3.1 Architecture The British sought out the United States Treasury in hopes of finding money or items of worth but they found only old records. They burned the United States Treasury and other public buildings the United States Department of War building was also burned However the War and State Department files had been removed so the books and records had been saved; the only records of the War Department lost were recommendations of appointments for the Army and letters received from seven years earlier the First U.S Patent Office Building was saved by the efforts of William Thornton the former Architect of the Capitol and then the Superintendent of Patents who gained British cooperation to preserve it.[A] "When the smoke cleared from the dreadful attack the Patent Office was the only Government building . left untouched" in Washington. .