Athenian Democracy had the council of five hundred and American Democracy has a government.
A is a soldier that it hired for pay by a foreign state is often referred to as a "mercenary" since they are simply hired to help the state in question carry out military objectives.
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The commander's name is Carleton. By that point, the british empire already started to made effort to abolish slavery before united states. So Carleton believed that returning the escaped slaves to Washington would be dishonorable.
Washington keep pushing him for several years for the return of the slaves until he eventually gave up and asked for compensation instead.