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6.3 Birds Washington D.C. Business Directory Today more than 100 battlefields and historic sites of the American Revolution are protected and maintained by the government the National Park Service alone owns and maintains more than 50 battlefield parks and sites related to the Revolution the American Battlefield Trust preserves almost 700 acres of battlefield land in six states. .

Uncle Marian a slave of great notoriety of North Carolina Daguerreotype of elderly North Carolina slave circa 1850! 9 See also Being situated in an area rich in American history and American heritage has led to the Potomac being nicknamed "the Nation's River." George Washington the first President of the United States was born in surveyed and spent most of his life within the Potomac basin All of Washington D.C. the nation's capital city also lies within the watershed the 1859 siege of Harper's Ferry at the river's confluence with the Shenandoah was a precursor to numerous epic battles of the American Civil War in and around the Potomac and its tributaries such as the 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff and the 1862 Battle of Shepherdstown. Vte Frankfort Kentucky USA (1792) Washington had planned to resign after his first term but the political strife in the nation convinced him that he should remain in office. He was an able administrator and a judge of talent and character and he talked regularly with department heads to get their advice. He tolerated opposing views despite fears that a democratic system would lead to political violence and he conducted a smooth transition of power to his successor. He remained non-partisan throughout his presidency and opposed the divisiveness of political parties but he favored a strong central government was sympathetic to a Federalist form of government and leery of the Republican opposition. 15.1 Reference works 15 Notes Washington D.C is overwhelmingly Democratic having voted for the Democratic candidate solidly since 1964 Each Republican candidate was voted down in favor of the Democratic candidate by a margin of at least 56 percentage points each time; the closest albeit very large margin between the two parties in a presidential election was in 1972 when Richard Nixon secured 21.6 percent of the vote to George McGovern's 78.1 percent Since then the Republican candidate has never received more than 20 percent of the vote, 12 See also Fish Other important personalities of the Civil War born in the immediate Washington area included Confederate Senator Thomas Jenkins Semmes Union general John Milton Brannan John Rodgers Meigs (whose death sparked a significant controversy throughout the North) and Confederate brigade commander Richard Hanson Weightman. 9 Impact of the war in the United States, Main articles: English Dissenters and First Great Awakening, The British did not give up their forts until 1796 in the eastern Midwest stretching from Ohio to Wisconsin; they kept alive the dream of forming a satellite Indian nation there which they called a Neutral Indian Zone That goal was one of the causes of the War of 1812.