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White House History. Pitch, Anthony S. The Burning of Washington, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55750-425-3. Snow, Peter When Britain Burned the White House, The 1814 Invasion of Washington, London: John Murray, 2013. ISBN 978-1-250-04828-8. Whitehorne, Joseph A. (1997) The Battle for Baltimore: 1814.
A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America volume 2. London. ISBN 0-665-35743-5. Latimer, Jon (2007). 1812: War with America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02584-4. Lord, Walter (1972). The Dawn's Early Light.
During the War of 1812, British forces briefly took control of Washington on August 24, 1814.They set fires throughout the Capitol, and also burned the White House, the headquarters of both the War Department and the Treasury Department.
Dolley and James Madison resided in the Octagon House from September 1814 through March 1815, after the White House was burned by the British. According to the legends, ghostly receptions are held by Dolley Madison, who is supposedly most often seen in the front hall and drawing room, and the smell of lilacs is noticeable whenever her ghost is ...
The War of 1812 is among the lesser celebrated of the nation’s victories, perhaps because the British marched into Washington, D.C., and burned the White House.
The war went very badly, so Madison turned to Monroe for help, appointing him United States Secretary of War in September 1814 after the Burning of Washington by the British, who the national capital and burned the White House. Monroe resigned as Secretary of State on October 1 but no successor was ever appointed, so he handled both offices ...
Billed as the great, blond hope of British politics, his premiership was a tragedy for his voters, the country and ultimately for Boris Johnson, writes historian Anthony Seldon
In 2013, he published "When Britain burned the White House", the story of the 1814 British invasion of Washington. [ 13 ] In 2015, he published "The Battle of Waterloo Experience" with his son Dan on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. [ 14 ]