All I said was that we lost potential photographic evidence of our old white house - nothing about Empire, expansion, Canada, cake or anything else. I have absolutely no interest in refighting the War of 1812. If you want to go on about this, I wish you’d go to the Guardian pages.
Also, to others, we lost many historical records when the White House was burned - genealogical records that have hampered Americans researching their past.
I replied to post 10, not 12.