“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.

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 ...

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 ...

British soldiers had set fire to the US Capitol and torched the White House during the “Burning of Washington” in the War of 1812, which erupted over maritime rights and other disputes.

He asked Congress to declare war on Britain in 1812, and the war began so badly ... In 1814 the British went so far as to burn the White House and Capitol Building as a fleeing Madison watched ...

UTICA, N.Y., Aug. 22. -- Hiram Cronk, the only soldier of the War of 1812 now upon the Government pension rolls, is dying at his home in Bunbrook, this county. Cronk is in his 103d year ...