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. Turtles of the Potomac River Basin 8.3 Voting rights debate. Revolutionary era The French detachment proved to be only about 50 men so Washington advanced on May 28 with a small force of Virginians and Indian allies to ambush them.[f] What took place was disputed but French forces were killed outright with muskets and hatchets French commander Joseph Coulon de Jumonville who carried a diplomatic message for the British to evacuate was mortally wounded in the battle French forces found Jumonville and some of his men dead and scalped and assumed that Washington was responsible. Washington placed blame on his translator for not communicating the French intentions. Dinwiddie congratulated Washington for his victory over the French. This incident ignited the French and Indian War which later became part of the larger Seven Years' War, According to a 2010 study Washington-area commuters spent 70 hours a year in traffic delays which tied with Chicago for having the nation's worst road congestion. However 37% of Washington-area commuters take public transportation to work the second-highest rate in the country an additional 12% of D.C commuters walked to work 6% carpooled and 3% traveled by bicycle in 2010 a 2011 study by Walk Score found that Washington was the seventh-most walkable city in the country with 80% of residents living in neighborhoods that are not car dependent in 2013 the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan statistical area (MSA) had the eighth lowest percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (75.7 percent) with 8 percent of area workers traveling via rail transit. . . Among the state documents promulgated between 1774 and 1789 by the Continental Congress four are paramount: the Continental Association the Declaration of Independence the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution Altogether 145 men signed at least one of the four documents in each instance roughly 50% of the names signed are unique to that document Only a few people (6) signed three of the four and only Roger Sherman of Connecticut signed all of them the following persons signed one or more of these formative documents:, In June 1775 Congress ordered an invasion of Canada led by Benedict Arnold who despite Washington's strong objection drew volunteers from the latter's force during the Siege of Boston the move on Quebec failed the American forces were reduced to less than half and retreated.

. Congress and the public Washington D.C during the early stages of the War When they ultimately returned to Bermuda the British forces took with them two pairs of portraits of King George III and his wife Queen Charlotte which had been discovered in one of the public buildings One pair currently hangs in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of Bermuda and the other in the Cabinet Building both in the city of Hamilton.