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0:00 Intro
1:11 Influence of Versailles and L'Enfant
3:33 American characteristics infused
5:18 1783 Mutiny
9:50 Dinner Table Bargain
13:54 Slavery in the District
18:16 Comparison with Peter I's New City

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