On this date in 1814, British soldiers were burning parts of Washington, D.C. At the same time, a tornado ripped through the city destroying even more of the city, but also killing more British soldiers than were killed by American troops.
1 posted on
08/25/2009 11:30:49 AM PDT by
RDTF
To: RDTF
Tornados in Washington DC? GLOBAL WARMING!!!
2 posted on
08/25/2009 11:47:32 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Coming to Marxists' Vineyard this 2009 - Wee Wee's Big Adventure.)
To: RDTF
The American performance in defending Washington is among the most embarassing in our entire history.
It was of truly WWII French level.
Of course, the next year Jackson evened things up at New Orleans, handing the Brits one of the worst defeats in their entire history.
4 posted on
08/25/2009 11:53:48 AM PDT by
Sherman Logan
("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
To: RDTF
When the soldiers got to the house which was being used as the Patent Office they started to burn it. The owner protested it was private property. The soldiers allowed him to bring the inventions out into the street where they were burned. Also a fair amount of the ammunition and the ships at the Navy yard were torched by our own people to prevent them from falling into British hands. Great old book called, By The Dawns Early Light by the late Walter Lord tells it very nicely.
To: RDTF
8 posted on
08/25/2009 12:01:53 PM PDT by
Pistolshot
(Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
To: RDTF
11 posted on
08/25/2009 2:02:29 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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