24 August 2022
Washington, DC Is Burnt by the British – 1814
August 24, 1814 - War of 1812 - Major-General Robert Ross marches 5,000 troops into Washington, D.C., after defeating an American force at Bladensburg, Maryland. Meeting no resistance, they burn the White House, the Capitol, the National Library and almost every public building in the city before a downpour douses the flames; a response to the burning and sacking of York, Upper Canada (Toronto) a year earlier. Washington, DC
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