Conversation. Thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] you are watching American History tv, 40 eight hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information about our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. 200 years ago on august 20 4, 1814, british soldiers routed american troops at the battle of bladensburg festival said washington. Openictory left the y it to British Forces who marched into the city and burned the white house and capitol building. Learn more about the burning of washington during the war of 1812 from author and historian anthony pitch at an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates. It is about one hour and 15 minutes. We are coming up on the 200th anniversary. We wanted to commemorate this anniversary despite the fact it is a less than glorious moment in our nations history. When
Limits. We passed through the map room, socalled because theres a map of europe over the mantelpiece and it shows the swastika symbols which plot the nazis theres a Little Medicine chest nearby about so big. And its got holes for vials of medicine and you can pull out the drawers. 1 in 1939, a canadian wrote to president roosevelt and his name was archibald canes. And he said, my grandfather was a paymaster aboard the british warship devastation which came up the Potomac River at that time and laid siege to alexandria and oversaw the raiding of the warehouses of Agricultural Produce. But i checked it up. Thomas canes was the paymaster of the devastation but none of the crew set foot in washington. So either he exchanged booty with another briton or archibald canes the canadian is mistaken as is the white house. Well, we then went to see the portrait of George Washington. They took away the rope that keeps you about 20 feet away and then for the first of countless times i saw the artis
After looking at how enslaved people built the Capitol last week, I wanted to look a little further afield. For me this means, as so often, that I looked into the workers at the Washington Navy Yard. While the question of who worked there – free or otherwise – has been forgotten, there are a […]