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The Day They Burned the White House
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HOW D.C. RECOVERED AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 The Day They Burned the White House
The War of 1812 doesn’t come up often outside of history classes, but of all the wars America has fought, it had the biggest impact on the DMV area. Two hundred and seven years ago this month, on Aug. 24, 1814, British troops marched into D.C. and set the U.S. Capitol and the White House on fire. This was no ordinary vandalism. The British soldiers wanted revenge for a similar attack on their holdings in Ontario, Canada, so they added insult to injury whenever they could. Before setting the White House on fire, they sat down at the president’s table and ate leftovers off of the official dishes using White House silver. Then, they went about “ransacking the presidential mansion and setting it ablaze,” according to the History Channel. The U.S. Senate’s archives report that all of the major public buildings in Washington were reduced to rubble except one: the Capitol. A rainstorm saved it from total destruction, but
not before the Senate wing was burned so thoroughly that the marble columns turned to lime. Fortunately, President James Madison and his wife, Dolley Madison, had already fled the White House by the time the soldiers arrived, taking with them nothing but a copy of a famous portrait of George Washington. For the next five years, the Senate met in different buildings while its traditional location was repaired. It returned to the Capitol in 1819, two years after President James Monroe moved into the newly rebuilt White House. The war of 1812 ended with the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. D.C. has risen valiantly from the ashes. Today, our nation’s capital is stronger than ever, proving what former Presidential Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett once said: “Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation, and our willingness to be optimistic about the future.” Or, as General Douglas MacArthur put it more simply at the 1928 Olympics, “Americans never quit.”
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