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The 1814 burning of Washington, D.C.
Two centuries ago this past week, smoke and ash lingered in the air of what remained of our nation s capital. Mo Rocca takes us back to that fiery night:
Two hundred years ago this month, 4,000 British soldiers lay siege to Washington, D.C., and set fire to the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
A drawing of the White House after the fire of 1814. Library of Congress
And the burn marks on the White House walls are still there. We now have evidence of the char marks, the scorching that would have happened when flames were drawn out through open windows and doors and licked up around the tops of the stone, said William Allman, the White House curator.
Washington is Burning
Graeme Garrard describes the events that led to the torching of the new US capital by British troops in August 1814 and considers the impact of the ‘greatest disgrace ever dealt to American arms’ on the US, Britain and Canada.
When James Madison, fourth President of the United States and ‘Father of the Constitution’, signed a declaration of war against Britain on June 18th, 1812 he could scarcely have imagined that two years later he would be fleeing from his burning capital before the invading enemy. At the start of the ‘War of 1812’, the first the US had declared on another nation, his friend and predecessor as president, Thomas Jefferson, had smugly declared that the war against Britain’s colonies in what is today Canada would be ‘a mere matter of marching’. As Madison abandoned the White House on horseback with his entourage and raced towards Virginia on August 24th, 1814 he stopped and looked back as he beheld the ruined city of
This is what it costs to buy the former home of Cauldron Ice Cream in Toronto
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The former home of Cauldron Ice Cream in Toronto s Queen West neighbourhood is now up for sale.
The ice cream parlour opened just two years ago on Queen West back in summer 2018.
Cauldron Ice Cream, a California-based chain known for its rose-shaped, liquid nitrogen ice cream and OG Puffle Cones. Hector Vasquez photo
Cauldron Ice Cream, a California-based chain known for its rose-shaped, liquid nitrogen ice cream and OG Puffle Cones was expanding in Toronto. Back in 2018 they had five stores planned for the GTA alone. Unfortunately, the shop at 502 Queen St. W. was the only one they opened in Toronto and outside the United States.