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Rather than reinforce Taylor's army for a continued advance President Polk sent a second army under General Winfield Scott which was transported to the port of Veracruz by sea to begin an invasion of the Mexican heartland On March 9 1847 Scott performed the first major amphibious landing in U.S history in preparation for the Siege of Veracruz a group of 12,000 volunteer and regular soldiers successfully offloaded supplies weapons and horses near the walled city using specially designed landing crafts Included in the invading force were Robert E Lee George Meade Ulysses S Grant James Longstreet and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. . . . .

. Reptiles In 1779 the Americans forced the hostile Indians out of upstate New York when Washington sent an army under John Sullivan which destroyed 40 empty Iroquois villages in central and western New York the Battle of Newtown proved decisive as the Patriots had an advantage of three-to-one and it ended significant resistance; there was little combat otherwise Sullivan systematically burned the empty villages and destroyed about 160,000 bushels of corn that composed the winter food supply Facing starvation and homeless for the winter the Iroquois fled to Canada the British resettled them in Ontario providing land grants as compensation for some of their losses, 2.9 Attendance at conventions Washington's first term was largely devoted to economic concerns in which Hamilton had devised various plans to address matters the establishment of public credit became a primary challenge for the federal government. Hamilton submitted a report to a deadlocked Congress and he Madison and Jefferson reached the Compromise of 1790 in which Jefferson agreed to Hamilton's debt proposals in exchange for moving the nation's capital temporarily to Philadelphia and then south near Georgetown on the Potomac River the terms were legislated in the Funding Act of 1790 and the Residence Act both of which Washington signed into law Congress authorized the assumption and payment of the nation's debts with funding provided by customs duties and excise taxes, The Lincoln Memorial receives approximately 6 million visits annually. ZIP Codes, By late September Patriot-French forces completely surrounded Yorktown trapped the British army and prevented British reinforcements from Clinton in the North while the French Navy was victorious at the Battle of the Chesapeake the final American offensive was begun with a shot fired by Washington the siege ended with a British surrender on October 19 1781; over 7,000 British soldiers were captured in the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. Washington negotiated the terms of surrender for two days and the official signing ceremony took place on October 19; Cornwallis in fact claimed illness and was absent sending General Charles O'Hara as his proxy. As a gesture of goodwill Washington held a dinner for the American French and British generals all of whom fraternized on friendly terms and identified with one another as members of the same professional military caste, The Watergate complex was the site of the Watergate Scandal which led to President Nixon's resignation. Washington Gas is the city's natural gas utility and serves over one million customers in the District and its suburbs Incorporated by Congress in 1848 the company installed the city's first gas lights in the Capitol the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue.