Over your safety on the rail. The federal government just nounced it is yanking millions of dollars from metro. Now, transit systems from maryland are losing money, all because state lawmakers missed a deadline to help metro. Adam, this is the big impact. 9 million in federal help is being repealed. Even metro itself. The feds blame maryland and virginia lawmake areless. Lawmakerless. The deadline was yesterday. They just sent this letter to say it did tails the project details the project for losing money. The metro crash. The fda has been pushing to make this new safety oversight program. The feds have been picking up the slack so far. Then a year ago, then transportation secretary anthony fox set the deadli just spoke to metro chair jack evans. He is angry about this. He called this action foolhardy and irresponsible. He wanted the deadline extended. He said state legislators just dont move fast enough. Maybe 9 months. D. C. Has already done its part. Here, bouncers signed the city
Hes been quite fearful that georgetown will be attacked. A a few days later, it is from this home that he would launch the mission to try to gain 8p maryland who had been taken prisoner by the british, a and this would ultimately lead to his eyewitnessing of the bombardment of ft. Mchenry and ultimately to thev f writing e national antent them. 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
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
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