Boston Tea Party, 1773
Boston Harbor appears in a moonlit scene, with people dressed as Native Americans throwing crates of tea from a boat; this famous event led to the Revolutionary War.
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On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812, British troops burned the Capitol and
During the mid-19th-century expansion of the U.S.
The Capitol's first cornerstone was laid on September 18, 1793, by President Washington
After Congress selected an area along the Potomac River for the site of the new federal city, President Washington chose French engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city and design the p