200 years ago this summer in he war of 1812, british soldiers invaded washington, d. C. 24, 1814 and set fire to the white house and the u. S. Building. President James Madison and first Lady Dolly Madison fled the city. Highlights from a symposium looking back at what war. Nown as mr. Madisons the White House Historical association, u. S. Capitol society, and James Madisons mt. Peelier cohosted this event. Our next speaker this mornings session will be talking about Dolly Madison and the british invasion of washington, d. C. In the war of 1812. We have heard some things about Dolly Madisons role in the war of 1812. Now, well hear more from holly shulman, a former editor of the Dolly Payne Todd madison papers. Associate Senior Editor of the papers of James Madison in 2004. Dr. Shooulman continued to publh Dolly Madison papers which she has grants from the Historic Preservation and Records Commission of the national archives. Please welcome holly shulman. [ applause ] those of you who a
A half hour after he had initially been due for dinner, with Supreme Court associate Justice Gabriel duvall and soon learned that quote, our army was rapidly retreating and that of the enemy advancing rapidly. He and duvall went to georgetown and picked up the jones and carol families as well as dolly, anna and annas husband, richard cuts. Jones then received word from James Madison to go to the works west of georgetown. So, quote, at about 5 00, i set out in the company of the family of the president of mr. Carol and of my own with mr. Duvall and proceeded through georgetown to join the president and found madison crossed at masons ferry. By august 29th, newspapers printed an extract of a letter. We are now one step further from, if you will, authenticity. That is to say its extract rather than a whole and its printed in a newspaper, so what has happened between the writing and printing, we dont exactly know. An extract of a letter to a gentleman in this town stating jacob, a wealthy
Shulman, a former editor of the Dolly Payne Todd madison papers. Associate Senior Editor of the papers of James Madison in 2004. Dr. Shooulman continued to publh Dolly Madison papers which she has grants from the Historic Preservation and Records Commission of the national archives. Please welcome holly shulman. [ applause ] those of you who are interested in the full papers of Dolly Payne Todd madison, what i do now is as complete as possible edition of the Dolly Madison papers in the Dolly Madison edition. Like the book, its published by the university press. Unlike the book is published by their electronic imprint, the name which is rotunda. If you go and you take a look at it, i hope you enjoy it. Do you want me to do oh, okay. Having said that, i want to thank, of course, as everyone speaking as thanked, the three organization that is have sponsored this and thank them for putting on a conference which is so beautifully focused so the papers can talk to each other in a way that do
Okay. Our next speaker this mornings session will be talking about Dolly Madison and the british invasion of washington, d. C. In the war of 1812. We have heard some things about Dolly Madisons role in the war of 1812. Now, well hear more from holly shulman, a former editor of the Dolly Payne Todd madison papers. Associate Senior Editor of the papers of James Madison in 2004. Dr. Shooulman continued to publh Dolly Madison papers which she has grants from the Historic Preservation and Records Commission of the national archives. Please welcome holly shulman. [ applause ] those of you who are interested in the full papers of Dolly Payne Todd madison, what i do now is as complete as possible edition of the Dolly Madison papers in the Dolly Madison edition. Like the book, its published by the university press. Unlike the book is published by their electronic imprint, the name which is rotunda. If you go and you take a look at it, i hope you enjoy it. Do you want me to do oh, okay. Having s
President donald trump confirms that American Special forces stormed onto barbara but that is carried out in northwestern syria will get you analysis from our correspondent in washington. Great to have you along everyone voting has just finished in the state election of thuringia and eastern germany the state is governed at the moment by a coalition of left wing parties and the greens where the far right a of d. Party hopes to make big gains at the expense of. C. D. U. Theyre well ahead of the vote all the other parties in the state ruled out that they would enter a coalition with the. Right time to crunch some numbers for you now we can get you the results of the 1st exit poll. Americal c. D. U. Conservative party has secured 22. 5 percent of the vote a very sharp drop of a leaven percentage point the social stuff party which leads the governing coalition at the moment has 29. 5 percent the center left social democrat s. P. D. Is at 8. 5 percent that cant make for comfortable reading