Sir keir starmer speaking earlier on today, now , in other earlier on today, now, in other news, 534 migrants were intercepted while crossing the engush intercepted while crossing the English Channel yesterday. That makes it the highest number of crossings on a single day so far this year. And it means the number of small boat arrivals this year now stands at a provisional total of 6265. It comes as the governments flagship rwanda policy returns to parliament, as you heard, with mps debating the latest amendments by peers this evening , a judge ordered today that prince harry must pay 90 of Home Office Legal costs after losing a case over his personal security. The duke of sussex had security. The duke of sussex had argued the court should reduce the amount he was required to pay by the amount he was required to pay by more than half. He launched legal action against the home office for cutting his Police Protection , after he Police Protection, after he stopped being a full time worki
In the war of 1812, obviously. So its my pleasure to welcome colonel eshelman to the podium. [ applause ] good morning, everyone. Thank you. That was a kind introduction. I have never been called colonel when im been introduced. Thank you very much. I want to add to the accolades expressed about the wonderful job the partners and all the individuals have done to put this symposium together. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you have as well. We still have an afternoon to go as well. Itis not over and im looking forward to it. Before lunch, which is an important thing for all of us, i have a few words i would like to say about some of the myth that surround washington, d. C. Specifically, im going to talk about three myths. Im going to present them to you in the form of a question. The first one is did the british really burn Washington City . Question number two. Is the white house really called the white house because it was painted white because of the scorch marks when the britis
And most of them i think were built around either boston or philadelphia. In supporting the war, and particularly the naval war, did jobs ever come into any of the equations in 1812, or looking longer through American History, when did jobs become an issue of National Policy . All right. When did jobs start driving our defense policy . Yes. Not during this war. I dont see any evidence that federalists said, well, weve got to support expanding the navy because thats going to be jobs in our commercial ports where were often in a majority. Ive not seen that hint of that. And this is a rare war, in that the we really did bad economically during the war. Sometimes we do very well during a war, i think its more typical that the massive spending in the ploumt, world war ii being the best case probably, generates economic activity. But not in this war. And thats largely as Andrew Lambert will be happy to remind us, because of the overwhelming power of the british navy. Which established a bloc
Eshelman for the National Historic trail. Now, from day two of the symposium on the british burning of washington, d. C. , during the war of 1812. Hosted by the White House Historical society, the u. S. Capitol Historical Society, and James Madisons mount pillier. Donald hickey talks about his book of the war of 1812 a forgotten conflict. This is about 45 minutes. Donald hickey is a professor of history at wans State College in nebraska. He was called the dean of 1812 scholarship by the new yorker, hes written seven books on the conflict. Most notably, the war of 1812, a forgotten conflict, available in a bicentennial edition. His book on Andrew Jackson and the battle of new orleans is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins university press. Professor hickey is editor of a fine series with monographs on the war of 1812. So its my pleasure to welcome professor don hickey. [ applause ] thanks for that introduction, don. I was asked to come here to talk about the politics of the war of 1812. You
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