On Aug. 24, 1814, the British started a fire at the U.S. Capitol and other buildings — and ultimately kindled a capital’s future.

British troops ransacked and torched the White House and other federal buildings in Washington, D.C., on August 24, 1814, in a humiliating attack on American sovereignty.

In August 1814, however, it was not US citizens who were attacking their own government’s property but British troops who had captured Washington with little to no resistance before setting the ...

In August 1814, according to the U.S. Senate’s historical highlights, word reached the Capitol that “British forces had swept aside the defending American army at Bladensburg, ...

On 23 September, 1814, Representative Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, “covered with wounds and resting on crutches,” rose to propose a special House committee to investigate the attack on ...

On Aug. 18, 1814, authorities in Washington learned that British warships were sailing up the Patuxent River in considerable force. ... Battle of Bladensburg – August 1814 ...

British troops burned U.S. Capitol in 1814. During the War of 1812 against Great Britain, British troops battled their way to Washington in August 1814 and burned down the Capitol and other buildings.

On August 17, 1814, a large British fleet dropped anchor at the mouth of the Patuxent River, only 35 miles from the nation’s capital. Aboard were 4,000 veteran troops under the command of a ...

On August 24, 1814, Dolley Madison rescued several important state documents and a now-famous oil portrait of George Washington from the White House as Washington, D.C., was being burned by ...

7 a.m., Aug. 24, 1814 The day began like so many days in Washington, with a painfully long meeting marked by confusion, misinformation and indecision. The British were coming. They were on the ...

Exactly two hundred years ago this weekend, on the afternoon of August 24, 1814, a British army of some 4,000 redcoats routed an American army of mostly 6,000… ...

Donald Hickey spoke at a symposium commemorating the 200th anniversary of the British invasion and burning of Washington, D.C., in August 1814. "American Under Fire: Mr. Madison's war and the ...