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<span>The Iran Contra Affair could be described as illegal as determined by a congressional investigation. This scandal happened in the US during Reagan's second term as president. Senior officials of the administrations secretly created the sale of weapons to Iran which was then the subject of an arms embargo. The hope was to fund the Contras in Nicaragua and to also negotiate to have some US prisoners released. Funding of the Contras had been prohibited by Congress under the Boland amendment.</span>
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Throughout the 1780s and 1790s, Washington stated privately that he no longer wanted to be a slaveowner, that he did not want to buy and sell slaves or separate enslaved families, and that he supported a plan for gradual abolition in the United States. Yet, Washington did not always act on his antislavery principles.
One significance was that even though the British won the battle, many of the British soldier were killed or wounded. This gave the Americans a confidence boost.