In the chesapeake and make it far more effective and destructive to the americans than had been their operation in 1813, when they did not have the same level of support and assistance from black americans. Now, this is an image that is produced. Im going to get this magic arrow out of the way, which is not part of the original image. You may recognize this structure. Its the u. S. Capitol building. This was produced in 1817 by a critic of american slavery, an american critic of american slavery named jesse torrey and jesse torrey wants you to think about the destruction of the Capitol Building and wants you to draw certain conclusions from it and those conclusions that he wants you to reach are indicated by the other figures hes put in this particular engraving. You can see down here in this right foreground, a group of enslaved africanamericans, a slave coffle. Washington, d. C. , was a slave fss a major center for the interstate slave trade of the United States, which is acceleratin
The shoals. And some more ships would sail up the bay under captain peter parker to disrupt communications and further confuse the americans. And hes able hes able to persuade ross and Admiral Cochrane to go along with this. Ross, he takes them ashore, in st. Marys county and ross sees how poor the defenses are. And ross is, you know, an aggressive commander himself. He certainly has proven himself in the european wars, and hes eager to get home. Hes got a wife who is not at all happy hes been sent across the ocean to fight in this new war. So what they agree to is they dont commit to an attack on washington, but they agree that theyll land the forces at benedict, and go try to trap barney and based on the resistance they meet, they can make a decision as to whether or not to continue on to washington. Cockburns plans are zealously endorsed by one of ross officers. This is lieutenant george de lacy evans. This picture was taken much later, during the crimean war, where he commanded a d
Then part of the land making up the district of columbia. This was a very wealthy port on the potomac. And they also could pose a threat to other targets in washington that hadnt been taken by the british army. Though they dont know this at this point. Georgetown had been left alone by the british and theres an important foundry that makes weapons for the u. S. Navy that is still sitting untouched. In any event, they were proceeding up river when theyre hit by the huge storm. The remarkable storm that comes through washington on august 25th sweeps down river and severely damages several of the ships in gordons squadron. And they have to stop to make repairs. They almost considered turning back at that point. But they keep coming up river. They sailed past mt. Vernon, which was just down river from here. And finally on august 27th, they come in sight of ft. Washington, which is the last fortress guarding the Potomac River as they on the approach to alexandria in washington. This was the
Many of his lectures and programs have been broadcast for them before. Were lucky to have him tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Anthony pitch. N÷ thank you veepjz much for coming. Just put that down. Its raining outside and so im very flad to see a lot of people here tonight. I want to tell you that a few years ago i escorted somebody into the white house, and his name was major ed ross, the same name Major General robert ross who burnt the white house. He was a descendant. And he wanted to see the scorch marks that i told him were there. They are under the front door and theres a big stone archway where you can see massive scorch marks from the fires set by the british in 1814. And n the pastry chef who has offices close by couldnt stop giggling. He thought heres a man whos come to finish the job. I like to write stories that are epic, true and sad. People ask me why dont you write something funny . I cant. I really like to write epic stories. Vietnam was one and then i wrote the bu
Arrive in washington. Theyre so great. They had a fire in the middle of the 19th century but you can see what remains of them in curved bookcases at the library of congress and its incredible. This man, this renaissance man, every subject you can think of is there. Archaeology. History. Art. Farming. Its all there in different languages. That was thomas jefferson. Amazing. Well, two days before the british arrived, the commandant ordered the navy clerk to get a hold of transport to take 124 barrels of gun powder out of the navy yard into the safety of virginia. Booth settled up across into georgetown and saw a wagon outside a store. He rode up and told the two apparent owners he was impounding it for the department of navy. This is wartime. And so some citizens who might normally have buckled to bureaucratic pressure bustled chasing off government officials with abuse and profanities. This is exactly what happened to booth. In a vivid chronicle written two weeks after the departure of