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Theyre also very different. And i suspect that the truth is somewhere in the middle here, and i couldnt tell you which one is better. And this is another one. This is an image that came out of one of the books that i did and it is showing the british piling up material, and this is in the Capitol Building. And if youll notice, the guy on the left, on the back, hes carrying a backpack that would carry two cases for a congrieve rocket. Rocket and if youll notice the man standing on top of the pile, hes literally taking the projectile material that would have been inside of that rocket and hes sprinkling it over the top and then thats how they would light that fire and here is the actual account and this is by Benjamin Henry latrobe. There was no want of material for the conflagration. For when the number of members of congress was increased the old platform was left in its place and another raised over it giving an additional quantity of dry and loose timber. All the stages and seats of
Thank you very much. A great honor to be here, and thank you to the u. S. Capital Historical Society and the White House Historical sorry for including me in this great honor. I thought i would take on i thought i would take on the myth that the british marched to washington to avenge the burning of york or what is today toronto in canada. As i was starting to think about this paper back in april, i was wondering, do i really need to make this argument . Do people still really think that . Now that were well into the bicentennial, i can tell you, yes, people still really think this. In fact im kind of biased, because i do think tthe Washington Post is our nations finest newspaperened they have this terrific section called kids posts. This was the headline a couple weeks ago. Revenge hungry british set d. C. Afire. The story tells us after americans set fire to new york, now toronto in canada, the british decided to do the same thing to washington. I know from experience if you dont mak
Symposium looking at mr. Madisons war. This is about okay. First i want to announce following our next presentation, we will take a tenminute break. Our next speaker will be speaking about mr. Madison will have to put on his armor, coburn and the capture of washington. Steve vogel is the author of through the perilous fight and the pentagon history. Hes a veteran journalist who wrote for the Washington Post until 2014. Most recently covering the treatment of veterans from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. His reporting about the war in afc was part of a package of the Washington Post stories that was selected as a finalist for the 2002 pulitzer prize. He covered the september 11th attack on the pentagon, and also covered the fall of beryl of the berlin wall. Hes actually currently working on a project on the history of berlin during the cold war, so maybe he has gone back in hi mind at least to the fall of berlin. A graduate of the college of william and mary with a degree in governmen