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• eddessaknight

  

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  Time Line; August 25th  during WAR of 1812  landing party of British solders set fire to Capitol and white House which was still under construction WAR of 1812  landing party of British solders set fire to Capitol and white House which was still under construction   

  

  Burning of Washington

  The Burning of Washington was a British invasion of Washington City, the capital of the United States, during the Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812. It is the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power has captured our Capitol