A big rainstorm hit the city that night after the n÷ britisd gone back to their camp, and extinguishes some of the flames including at the treasury. And coburn, the next morning, he rides up to the white house pretty much for the ae satisfn of seeing the burnt building and he also wanted to make sure that some of the parts of the building that hadt not been extinguished by the rain, and one party sent up to the navy yard, and coburn remarks that he is glad that the americansrn e÷d him the trouble of burning the place, but he sends some of his sailors and loyal marines there remaining buildings that had not been burned. Another party comesvel down hero point, and this was the southern tip of the city at this point. 2p the federal government had a large arsenal ofs;fcannons and hundreds of kegs of powder stored there. And the party Royal Marines gets to it, and they find the well sh, and they try to destroy it, and some of the cannons that had been left behind. And they are in the proc
Indeed less dangerous to their interests. The continental system, not this continent but the european continent, was beginning to destroy the economies of other european states. Napoleon protected france from the economic war by asset stripping all of the conquered territories. First country to rebel would be russia, napoleons only serious ally, and a Major Trading nation with a big export trade geared towards supplying the british market. Inside the continental system from 1807 to 1811 russia saw their economy collapse. Being part of napoleons team was very bad for your business. In 1811 the czar of russia, alexander, realized that if he carried on like this his country would be bankrupt and he would follow his father to an early grave. The last time russia had made war on brittain the czar was murdered and they changed the government. Basically most of the landowners in russia relied on selling goods to the british to pay their bills. So the czar decided that bankruptcy and debt was
Saved by several businessmen from new york who came by4pqon secured a wagon and took it away in maryland for safekeeping. Now, dolly rides into georgetown adison friends, and she is etown waiting more word from madison. President madison arrives at the white house around 4 00 in the afternoon. Dolly is left, and he takes sort of the last look around the place, and she is accompanied by a couple of aides. He is obviously exhausted and a 60yearold man who had been riding out on a horseback out to a battlefield to come under rocket fire, and has come back to the white house, and you can only imagine what his thoughts are at this moment. This is the nation that he had helped conceive. He had been the Guiding Light behind the constitution. And now, you know, americas great enemy Great Britain had a clear path and was on its way into washington. He stopped and pauses for a glass of wine and collects his thoughts and then gets on horseback to ride down here to georgeto georgetown where the su
Best guesses. But of course the numbers that the indians had operated from a far smaller demographic base so, the impact of heavy losses is going to be much greater proportionately with indians. So the indians lost a great many warriors particularly but also women and children in starvation as a result of the war. And that made it all easier for americans after 1815 to remove some of these people, ship them further west so they ultimately end up on reservations in indian territory. This did facilitate american expansion across the continent. Then on top of that i suppose you can throw in property dam e damages a result of british raids, captures of sea merchants, men, things like that. Its probably impossible to put a precise figure on that. The british captured a few american merchants in the period, but actually americans also captured a good many british merchants. I think its impossible to put a figure on that. But if we say that human damage is necessary, the greatest any war in
During the war of 1812, british soldiers invaded washington, d. C. And set fire to the white house and the u. S. Capitol building. President James Madison and first Lady Dolly Madison fled the city. Next, andrew lambert, author of the challenge britain against america in the war of 1812. He spoke at a symposium hosted by the White House Historical association, u. S. Capitol historical society, and James Madisons montpelier. This is 45 minutes. Lambert, challenge, naval war of 1812. My name is stewart mclauren, and im the president of the White House Historical association where we are privileged to convene today for this significant event. Were honored to have with us today two members of the board of directors of the White House Historical association, the honorable stock and kiplinger. Were also honored to have with us today mr. William almond, who is the curator of the white house. This program commemorates bicentennial of one of americas most critical but overlooked conflicts. With