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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.
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I guess it could. If you had like a graph of their financial status increasing. Speaking of which thatd the information you would need. You would need to be able to see their finances.
Constantinople (known today as Istambul). It sits on the Bosphorus Strait, a waterway that separates Asia from Europe.