Their target: Washington, the newly built U.S. Their mission: to give America and its President James Madison "a good drubbing" for declaring war on Britain two years earlier.
Robert Ross is their general, spurred on by the fiery Admiral George Cockburn who has been ravaging the Chesapeake for the past year.
They're battle-hardened veterans who have crushed the armies of the French emperor Napoleon in Europe. ”Īn army of 4,500 British redcoats suddenly appears at Bladensburg on the eastern bank of what is today known as the Anacostia River. Here ’s the blow-by-blow of what happened, written by Peter Snow, author of the newly released history, “ When Britain Burned the White House. The 200th anniversary of those events begins in just a few short days. But in the late summer of 1814, the most famous events of the war, apart from the legendary Battle of New Orleans, occurred in a condensed period of just a few short weeks. Events in 1813 weren ’t that noteworthy either. Despite its name, the War of 1812, at least in America, was barely fought in that year.
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