Yes...and New Orleans. BUT, burning DC makes it a draw in SOME peoples’ minds.
hey Hon - they didn’t burn Baltimore, did they?
25 hours of bombardment and the flag was still there, so the Brits up and sailed away
Francis Scott Key, released from being an involuntary observer on one of the warships, went (crawled?) to a nearby pub, ordered himself a well-deserved tall one (too bad no Natty Bo back then), and wrote a somewhat historically significant poem about it!