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Fires and flames mark 1814 burning of Washington tale
The 1814 British attack lit the sky over Washington as Capitol and White House burned. Accounts describe rockets from the House, Dolley Madison saving Washington portrait, and a midnight storm fanning the flames. The piece notes later visits by President Clinton to the Truman Balcony as the unpainted sandstone bears soot marks.
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Associat Ashington
Patuxent River
Chesapeake Bay
Washington
Bladensburg
Maryland
Georgetown College
Potomac River
John McElroy
W.C
Washington City
James Madison
Virginia
Anthony S. Pitch
1814
Naval Institute Press
Annapolis
Britain
United States
Napoleon
Spain
Duke of Wellington
America
U.S
York
Toronto
Ontario
Washington Navy Yard
Capitol
Robert Ross
George Cockburn
Cockburn
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Dolley Madison
President’s House
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
Jemmy Madison
Army
Harry Smith
New Orleans
Clinton
Truman