WASHINGTON D.C. -USA
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The first President of the United States, George Washington, picked the site of the nation's capital in 1791 and congress approved. He picked that location because it was near the middle of the thirteen colonies. George Washington asked a French architect, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to design the city but fired him a year later because L'Enfant was acting like a prima donna. The city's plan is partly based on the palace and garden of Versailles, where L'Enfant's father had worked as a court painter. L'Enfant also designed the old City Hall in New York and the town house of the financier Robert Morris in Philadelphia.
Washington, D.C. was barely completed when it was captured and burned in 1814 by the British during the War of 1812. It's okay now, though.
