Did Canada Burn Down The White House In 1814? Joy Reid's Comment Fact-Checked
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 ...
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The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do
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 ...
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The War of 1812’s Forgotten Battle Cry
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 ...
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Former Canadian PM Jokes About Burning Down the White House
“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.