Two items: What if the Brits had won at New Orleans? Would they have been so eager to end the war or return captured land? 2, As the British were buring DC, a massive thunderstorm began and the heavy rain helped put out the fires and save the outer walls of the White House and other structures. An act of God to save a country he would need later and had great pans for?
” What if the Brits had won at New Orleans? Would they have been so eager to end the war or return captured land?”
Occupying it wouldn’t have been all that easy. New Orleans was like the wild west plus French cuisine, and the locals wouldn’t have been pleased with their new English overlords. I had two ancestors at the battle of New Orleans. One was with Lafitte and family history thinks he was a pirate.
There was tornadoes too! How often is DC hit with that?