And hopefully the last time it will occur.
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And hopefully the last time it will occur.
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It was the year Canadians came down and torched the White House. We so appreciated it we followed them back up to Canada and torched their Parliament buildings in return. The British were behind it all, but they took off and we didn't feel like chasing them all the way to Britain to torch something there, so settled on a few ships as being sufficient retaliation. Thomas Jefferson thought about annexing Canada after that stunt, but others figured it wasn't really worth it. ![]()
Having second thoughts are we?
COME ON UP!!!
THIS is why I asked..."Are you sure you want to bring it up?"{
Did you know the US Navy did, in fact, invade England? ![]()
It was around that time and one ship I think landed at an English port.
I saw a TV program about it a few years ago. The US Navy send a ship of the fleet to the same port every year to commemorate it.
The trouble is I might be imagining this because I can find no reference to it now.
Anyone else know about it?
Mark
April 27, 1813: U.S. troops attack and burn York, (Capital of Upper Canada).
August 24, 1814: British burn Washington.
he started out writing headlines, now he's REwriting history?
I'll be the first to admit I wasn't there...BUT
Under the "Military Events in Europe" column.
1812 July 21 to August 1: Battles of the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain ending in British success.
France and Spain go to war, Britain wins! ![]()
Details are missing though and the battle was more complicated than that short entry suggests. France attacked to relieve a French garrison, but was repelled by a combined Spanish/British force. One of the few times Britain and Spain were not fighting each other in those times.
Mark
Actually it was the other way around. We invaded them and it didn't work out well at all, but we burned their govt. building down. They in turn burned Washington when it came later. Also at that same time after the fires got started, since little if any resistance was put up for long. That a weather front came in and did more damage to British troops than any enemy action during that campaign. It was so wet and bad, that it in turn put out the fires and put the hurt of the British troops. However, a hulk of a Washington WH was left. Because of this any furniture of Dolly Madison's or the then WH are considered "national treasures" if ever recovered, because they were documented, some were actually returned after the fire, but other furniture is said to have gone to England. Yeah, it was moved for safe keeping and Pres. Madison reportedly wisked away important papers as well, buried them and retrieved them later, the US Constitution being one of those papers.