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A delegation including John Adams and Benjamin Franklin met British admiral Richard Howe on Staten Island in New York Harbor on September 11 in what became known as the Staten Island Peace Conference Howe demanded that the Americans retract the Declaration of Independence which they refused to do and negotiations ended the British then seized New York City and nearly captured Washington's army They made New York their main political and military base of operations holding it until November 1783 the city became the destination for Loyalist refugees and a focal point of Washington's intelligence network, District of Columbia Retrocession to Maryland: as Arlington County in 1846 was retroceded to Virginia proponents believe the rest of the District of Columbia with the exception of a small strip of land around the Capitol and the White House would be given back to Maryland allowing for DC residents to become Maryland residents as they were prior to the Residence Act of 1790. 6.7 Desertion Yale College: Oliver Wolcott Further information: History of Washington D.C and Timeline of Washington D.C; .

. Miniature of George Washington by Robert Field (1800) Main article: Transportation in Washington D.C. Desertion was a major problem for the Mexican Army depleting forces on the eve of battle Most soldiers were peasants who had a loyalty to their village and family but not to the generals who had conscripted them Often hungry and ill underequipped only partially trained and never well paid the soldiers were held in contempt by their officers and had little reason to fight the Americans Looking for their opportunity many slipped away from camp to find their way back to their home village, Washington D.C. Business Directory, Star of the West Samuel Holten Massachusetts 1 Yes 3.1.4 Territorial government One of the contributing factors to loss of the war by Mexico was the inferiority of their weapons the Mexican army was using surplus British muskets (e.g Brown Bess) from the Napoleonic Wars period While at the beginning of the war the majority of American soldiers were still equipped with the very similar Springfield 1816 flintlock muskets more reliable caplock models gained large inroads within the rank and file as the conflict progressed Some US troops carried radically modern weapons that gave them a significant advantage over their Mexican counterparts such as the Springfield 1841 rifle of the Mississippi Rifles and the Colt Paterson revolver of the Texas Rangers in the later stages of the war the US Mounted Rifles were issued Colt Walker revolvers of which the US Army had ordered 1,000 in 1846 Most significantly throughout the war the superiority of the US artillery often carried the day While technologically Mexican and American artillery operated on the same plane US army training as well as the quality and reliability of their logistics gave US guns and cannoneers a significant edge.[citation needed]; . A few nation states have multiple capitals and there are also several states that have no capital Some have a city as the capital but with most government agencies elsewhere. Main article: District of Columbia retrocession, Washington D.C. Business Directory From the Mexican Cession the Utah Territory received present-day Utah most of present-day Nevada (everything north of the 37th parallel) a major part of present-day Colorado (everything west of the crest of the Rocky Mountains) and a small part of present-day Wyoming That included the newly founded colony at Salt Lake of Brigham Young the Utah Territory also received some land that had claimed by Texas; this land is now part of present-day Colorado that is east of the crest of the Rocky Mountains.