When the Brits Burnt the Capitol, with Peter Snow

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In 1814 a British expeditionary force landed in Maryland, marched on Washington, brushed aside an American army and stormed into the US capital. The British looted and burnt the Capitol, then moved on to the White House, ate President Madison's dinner and then torched the White House. Even members of the British force described it as 'barbaric.' Two hundred years later Peter Snow, Dan's dad, wrote an account of the raid. He seemed like the obvious guy to talk to as The Capitol was once again attacked this year.

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0:39.8	Flames licked up the side of the capital.
0:44.4	Looters rampaged through the corridor.
0:47.8	It was an assault on the very heart of the American democracy.
0:52.7	I am of course talking about the attack in the late summer of 1814 when a British
0:58.5	expeditionary force landed in Maryland marched on Washington D.C. and stormed the capital
1:04.3	of the Republic.
1:05.9	They sacked and burned the capital building and the White House.
1:11.1	It was the last time that a foreign army has seized the capital of the United States
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