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Washington Is Burning
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Author : Marty Rhodes Figley
language : en
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Washington Is Burning written by Marty Rhodes Figley and has been published by Millbrook Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Fifteen-year-old Paul Jennings looked out the window of the President's House. America was at war with Britain, and British soldiers were marching toward Washington. Terrified people were fleeing the city. But Paul was not going to join them yet. He was a slave who belonged to President Madison and his wife, Dolley. Dolley did not want to leave until her husband returned from the battlefront. Paul stayed by her side, helping her pack up official papers and belongings. Finally, they could wait no longer. But there was one more treasure they had to save. Were they too late?
Washington Burning
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Author : Les Standiford
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2008-05-06
Washington Burning written by Les Standiford and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-06 with History categories.
The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears scorch and soot marks on its foundation stones. It was only after this British lesson in “hard war,” designed to terrorize, that Americans overcame their resistance to the idea of Washington as the nation’s capital and embraced it as a symbol of American might and unity. The dramatic story of how the capital rose from a wilderness is a vital chapter in American history, filled with intrigue and outsized characters–from George Washington to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the eccentric, passionate, difficult architect who fell in love with his adopted country. This Frenchman–both inspired by the American cause of liberty and wounded while defending it–first endeared himself to then General Washington with a sketch drawn at Valley Forge. Designing buildings, parades, medals, and coins, L’Enfant became the creator of a new American aesthetic, but the early tastemaker had ambition and pride to match his talent. Self-serving and incapable of compromise, he was consumed with his artistic dream of the Federal City, eventually alienating even the president, his onetime champion. Washington struggled to balance L’Enfant’s enthusiasm for his brilliant design with the strident opposition of fiscal conservatives such as Thomas Jefferson, whose counsel eventually led to L’Enfant’s dismissal. The friendships, rivalries, and conflicting ideologies of the principals in this drama–as revealed in their deceptively genteel correspondence and other historical sources–mirror the struggles of a fledgling nation to form a kind of government the world had not yet known. In these pages, as in Last Train to Paradise and Meet You in Hell, master storyteller Les Standiford once again tells a compelling, uniquely American story of hubris and achievement, with a man of epic ambition at its center. Utterly absorbing and scrupulously researched, Washington Burning offers a fresh perspective on the birth of not just a city, but a nation.
Washington City Is Burning
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Author : Harriette Robinet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Washington City Is Burning written by Harriette Robinet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with United States categories.
In 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House, experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.
The Burning Of Washington
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Author : Anthony Pitch
language : en
Publisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1998
The Burning Of Washington written by Anthony Pitch and has been published by Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
In the hot and humid summer of 1814 British troops completed a fifty-mile march to capture the young American capital, putting to rout along the way pitiful citizen militiamen (some in winter gear, others barefoot) while President James Madison rode out of town to safety. Among those remaining, a realization spread that Washington had been "abandoned to a horrid fate." In no time, British arsonists set off an inferno whose glow was seen fifty miles away and from which burn marks are visible today on original stones of the White House. This attack was one of the defining moments in the coming-of-age of the United States, and Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story with all the immediacy of an eyewitness account.
Washington City Is Burning
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Author : Harriette Gillem Robinet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Washington City Is Burning written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with United States categories.
In 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House, experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.
When Washington Burned
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Author : Arnold Blumberg
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2012-09-07
When Washington Burned written by Arnold Blumberg and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-07 with History categories.
A vivid account of the often forgotten 1812 conflict between a young United States and an imperial Britain, including maps and illustrations. Scarcely three decades after the United States won its independence, the massive strength of its mother country returned, seeking to enforce its will on its wayward offspring. The combats were various in scale and ferocity, stretching from the wilds of the Canadian border to the swamps of New Orleans, while on the high seas, the fledgling American navy slugged it out bravely with fearsome Britannia—and achieved shocking success. On land, the Americans initially had less luck and witnessed the burning of their new capital at Washington, DC, by British redcoats, even as a gallant bastion off Baltimore continued to hold its flag high beneath the “rockets’ red glare.” Though unnecessary for geopolitical purposes, as the war had already ended, Gen. Andrew Jackson punctuated the conflict profoundly with a disastrous defeat of Wellington’s veterans near the Crescent City. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of images of the fighting and the soldiers, this book illuminates an exciting, even if frequently forgotten, episode in our history—one of America’s first great crises.
The White House Is Burning
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Author : Jane Sutcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Release Date : 2014-08-05
The White House Is Burning written by Jane Sutcliffe and has been published by Charlesbridge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In this "biography of a single day," the burning of the White House by the British during the War of 1812 is told from the viewpoint of the people who were there, including First Lady Dolley Madison, a British officer, and a nine-year-old slave. Jane Sutcliffe draws upon first-person accounts to recreate a compelling chronology of the events of August 24, 1814.
When Britain Burned The White House
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Author : Peter Snow
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-09-02
When Britain Burned The White House written by Peter Snow and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-02 with History categories.
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014. In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading force just outside Washington DC. The US president and his wife have just enough time to pack their belongings and escape from the White House before the enemy enters. The invaders tuck into the dinner they find still sitting on the dining-room table and then set fire to the place. 9/11 was not the first time the heartland of the United States was struck a devastating blow by outsiders. Two centuries earlier, Britain - now America's close friend, then its bitterest enemy - set Washington ablaze before turning its sights to Baltimore. In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of both sides of this extraordinary confrontation, the outcome of which inspired the writing of the 'Star-Spangled Banner', America's national anthem. Using a wealth of material including eyewitness accounts, he also describes the colourful personalities on both sides of these spectacular events: Britain's fiery Admiral Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular army commander Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. On the American side: beleaguered President James Madison, whose young nation is fighting the world's foremost military power, his wife Dolley, a model of courage and determination, military heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed incompetents like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in American history, its far-reaching consequences for both sides and Britain's and America's decision never again to fight each other.
When Washington Burned
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Author : Robert P. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2023
When Washington Burned written by Robert P. Watson and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with United States categories.
"Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington, DC. It is a unique moment in American history that might have significantly altered the nation's path forward, but the event and the reasons why it happened are little remembered by most Americans. The British conquest of Washington, DC during the War of 1812 happened because of inept American leadership, a poorly trained and equipped military, and a lack of foresight. The burning of federal building, including the White House and Capitol, reversed a decade and a half of work to build the capital city. The humiliation of a foreign army eating dinner at the president's table and the flight of the federal government reopened old questions about the survival of the United States, what kind of government it would have, and where its capital should be located. Yet the British invasion was repulsed over the coming weeks and months, and from the ashes of the capital city, the United States ultimately emerged stronger. Robert P. Watson tells this almost forgotten history and probes questions about the American calamity, British motives, and what it all meant for the United States"--
Washington Is Burning The War Of 1812
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Author : Alvin Robert Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Reading Essentials in Social S
Release Date : 2004
Washington Is Burning The War Of 1812 written by Alvin Robert Cunningham and has been published by Reading Essentials in Social S this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn about the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.