Joy Reid claimed on Don Lemon's show that Canada burned down the White House in 1814. However, it was actually the British, not Canada, who did so during the War of 1812. Canada, then a British colony ...

This timber, which survived the burning of the White House 200 years ago ... the British historiography of the War of 1812 has generally consisted of short chapters squeezed between the grand ...

After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812 ... a formal dinner set at the White House. British troops devoured ...

“During the war of 1812, American troops came to what is ... “Some [Canadian soldiers] apparently burned down the White House at that time,” he added, earning laughs from the crowd.

The White House criticized a federal judge's attempt ... The act had only been successfully invoked three times in U.S. history: during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.

But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key figures in the War of 1812, apparently crossed the frozen lake in the winter of 1813-14. The ...