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	Burning of Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Burning of Washington is the name given to the razing of Washington, D.C., by British forces during the War of 1812.
		The historic Washington Navy Yard, founded by Thomas Jefferson and the first federal installation in the United States, was burned by the Americans to prevent capture of stores and ammunition, as well as the 44-gun frigate Columbia which was then being built.
		The occupation of Washington lasted about 26 hours, and within a week the British troops were dispatched to their next target, Baltimore.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burning_of_Washington (1020 words)

	Open Burning Official - Washington, Connecticut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Burning must NOT take place (a) during an advisory of threatening atmospheric conditions or any other air pollution emergency episode or (b) during a period when forest fire danger is high or extreme if the open burning is within 100 feet of a woodland or a grassland adjacent to a woodland.
		Burning permit must be available at all times at the site of the burn.
		Burning without a Permit is considered a criminal act and may be punishable by fine or arrest.
	www.washingtonct.org /burning.html (476 words)

	Georgetown, Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georgetown is bounded by the Potomac River on the south, Rock Creek to the east, and Glover Park to the north, with Georgetown University on the west end of the neighborhood.
		Given the curious coincidence of the both of the founders' first names and that of the English king at the time, historians dispute the source of the name of the town: One theory suggests that it was designated to honor King George II, while another argues that it was named for its founders.
		As Washington grew, however, the center of social Washington moved east across Rock Creek to the new Victorian homes that sprang up around the city's traffic circles, and to the gilded age mansions along Massachusetts avenue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgetown,_Washington,_D.C. (1418 words)

	Burning of Washington: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Burning of Washington is a name given the razing of Washington, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Washington was a minor port with only about 8,000 inhabitants — about one-sixth of whom were slaves[For more, click on this link].
		The union flag or union jack is the flag most commonly associated with the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and was also used throughout...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/burning_of_washington.htm (1982 words)

	Burning of Washington articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Washington, D.C. [Washington, D.C.] capital of the United States, coextensive (since 1878, when Georgetown became a part of Washington) with the District of Columbia (2000 pop.
		He served in the Mediterranean, and in the War of 1812 he participated in the Chesapeake Bay expeditions and in the burning of Washington.
		Washington, D.C. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories in The New Yorker magazine and won acclaim with the 1976 publication of her novel Chilly Scenes of Winter and her story collection Distortions, both chronicling with
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Burning+of+Washington (519 words)

	Today in History: August 19
		Fort Washington) on the east bank of the river, twelve miles south of the nation's capital.
		The Battle of Bladensburg and the burning of Washington were humiliating defeats for the United States.
		Washington as It Was, 1923-1959 contains several photographs of an early television studio.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/aug19.html (1093 words)

	Re: The Burning of Washington: The British invasion of 1814
		The Burning of Washington: The British invasion of 1814
		Re: The Burning of Washington: The British invasion of 1814
		Re: The Burning of Washington: Payback's a bitch!
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	The Capture And Burning Of Washington
		During the same period an attack was made on the capital city of Washington, which resulted disastrously to the Americans, and in a shameful instance of vandalism on the part of the British commanders.
		While the public buildings in Washington were in flames, the national shipping, stores, and other property were blazing at the navy-yard; also the great bridge over the Potomac, from Washington City to the Virginia shore.
		Finding the process of unscrewing the frame from the wall too tedious for the exigency, she had it broken in pieces, and the picture removed with the "stretcher," or light frame on which the canvas was nailed.
	www.history1700s.com /articles/article1089.shtml (3170 words)

	The British Burn Washington, 1814
		Washington had little strategic value - the thriving port of Baltimore was much more important.
		As the British army of approximately 4,000 approached, the majority of Washington residents fled the city.
		Gleig, George Robert, A History of the Campaigns of the British at Washington and New Orleans (1826), reprinted in Commager, Henry Steele and Allan Nevins The Heritage of America (1939); Lloyd, Alan, The Scorching of Washington (1974); Seale, William The President's House, Vol.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /washingtonsack.htm (1048 words)

	Amazon.de: The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The decision to burn public buildings and destroy public property was as much political as military, aimed at sending the message that nowhere was there safety from the long arm of the British crown.
		June 1814 brought chaos to the city of Washington, D.C. With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account and the theatrics of a motion picture, The Burning of Washington is the dramatic story of the British 1814 invasion of the American capital.
		The "Burning of Washington" is a fast-paced and moving book that reads like a novel, yet is flawlessly researched and based totally on first-hand accounts and historic records.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/1557506922 (1134 words)

	The Burning Of Washington (1814 )
		Enervated as the troops had been by the close confinement of the voyage, and wilting under the burning sun of that season, it was with difficulty, at first, that they staggered along.
		Simultaneously with this abandonment of their homes by an army that retired but did not rally, fire was put at the navy-yard to a new frigate on the stocks, to a new sloop-of-war lately launched, and to several magazines of stores and provisions, for the destruction of which ample preparations had been made.
		Several private houses were burned, and some private warehouses broken open and plundered; but, in general, private property was respected, the plundering being less on the part of the British soldiers than of the low inhabitants, fl and white, who took advantage of the terror and confusion to help themselves.
	www.multied.com /documents/BurningWash.html (1553 words)

	A British Account of the Burning of Washington - 1814
		The author, a British soldier present at the burning of the city of Washington by British forces on August 23, 1814, wrote this account in his book, "A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans."
		Toward morning a violent storm of rain, accompanied with thunder and lightning, came on, which disturbed the rest of all those who were exposed to it.
		The flashes of lightning seemed to vie in brilliancy with the flames which burst from the roofs of burning houses, while the thunder drowned the noise of crumbling walls, and was only interrupted by the occasional roar of cannon, and of large depots of gunpowder, as they one by one exploded...
	www.nationalcenter.org /BritishBurnWashington1814.html (530 words)

	Anthony Pitch and the Burning of Washington
		In the summer of 1814, Washington was a rustic town with 8,000 residents, one-sixth of them slaves.
		Pitch describes as "infatuated with himself," assured Madison that Washington was not at risk, insisting that the British meant to attack Baltimore.
		Seizing Washington would position the British to attack Baltimore from the rear, capture important national documents and employ the talents of army Maj. Gen.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9809/pitch.html (1347 words)

	Dolly Madison on the Burning of Washington - 1814 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dolly Madison on the Burning of Washington - 1814
		This is taken from a letter by First Lady Dolley Madison to her sister, Anna, written the day before Washington, D.C. was burned by British forces during the War of 1812.
		Madison fled she rendezvoused with her husband, and together, from a safe distance, they watched Washington burn.
	www.nationalcenter.org /WashingtonBurning1814.html (561 words)

	The White House Historical Association > Research
		The burning of Washington, which completely gutted the President’s House, would not have taken place but for the ongoing war between Britain and France, who tried to weaken each other by targeting trade with neutral American ships.
		A British diplomat in Washington clearly saw the possibility of a clash when writing home to his mother: "While we are aiming blows at the French marine we want elbow room, and these good neutrals won’t give it to us, and therefore they get a few side pushes which make them grumble.
		In their brief encounter she was horrified to learn from Ross that one of his spies had duped her a few days earlier when she had taken him for a British deserter and fed him against the advice of one of her permanent residents, the postmaster general.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /08/subs/08_b04.html (4332 words)

	U.S. Senate: Reference Home > The Burning of Washington
		In The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814, author Anthony Pitch (a British-born, naturalized American) recounts the events that led up to and followed this defining moment in the coming of age of the United States.
		An example of one of Stuart's portraits of Washington is in the Senate art collection today.
		After the fall of Washington, D.C., when all seemed lost, the twists of fate put victory into the hands of the young republic with the exhilarating defeat of the British at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry.
	www.senate.gov /reference/reference_item/Burning.htm (518 words)

	DCist: Relive the Burning of Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Americans were routed, Dolly Madison fled the White House with the silverware and the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, and the British had their way with the city.
		With the flames of the burning city clearly in sight, the citizens of Alexandria tried to bribe the British not to set the city afire.
		According to one website, "There was a minor disturbance in the peace of temporary British occupation of Alexandria when a team of U.S. soldiers, not having discussed their actions with any officials, decided Alexandria was giving in too easy and being disgracefully trod upon."
	www.dcist.com /archives/2004/09/12/relive_the_burn.php (467 words)

	Almost 90,000 acres burning in Washington State
		The spot fire near Bald Mountain in the Pasayten Wilderness was burning about three miles south of the border, and about two miles north of the main Farewell Creek fire, spokeswoman Christy Covington said Thursday.
		In Western Washington, a 20-acre wildfire near Morton in Lewis County threatened three homes and was attacked with fire retardant released from a fixed-wing airplane and water bombing from a helicopter.
		Conditions are so dry in Eastern Washington that officials in the Colville National Forest considered closing the forest to all public access.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/956246/posts (559 words)

	The Burning of Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Americans have grown so accustomed to being citizens of a superpower that our collective memory of the burning of Washington during the War of 1812 has been submerged.
		Pitch, with a solid reputation as a tour leader and local D.C. historian, offers an archivally based, definitive account of the British raid into Chesapeake Bay in 1814, and the successful march on Washington that was a function of American ineffectiveness as much British competence.
		The decision to burn public buildings and destroy public property was as much political as military, aimed at sending the message that nowhere was there safety from the tong arm of the British crown.
	www.familyhaven.com /books/burningofwashington.html (273 words)

	American Independence The Burning of Washington DC
		The article below is taken from a letter by First Lady Dolley Madison to her sister, Anna, written the day before Washington, D.C. was burned by British forces during the War of 1812.
		Note: When the Capitol was burned during the war of 1812, a brick boardinghouse was used as a temporary capitol.
		This is also the building that became known as Old Capitol Prison, and was where Rose O'Neale and her daughter were improsoned during the Civil War.
	www.onealwebsite.com /burn.htm (694 words)

	Burning Mouth, Seattle Washington
		This is an ailment brought about by a number of different factors, diabetes, including Vitamin B deficiency, dry mouth, iron deficiency, a fungal infection, hormonal imbalances, or different types of trauma, possibly from certain dentist in Seattle procedures.
		If the cause of the disorder is found to be a nutritional deficiency, the burning mouth syndrome can sometimes be cured by replacement of the missing dietary component(s).
		When a cure can not be found, topical anesthetics or steroids are sometimes helpful in reduction of the burning sensation.
	www.smilesbydesigndds.com /burning-mouth.htm (212 words)

	The Burning of Washington : The British Invasion of 1814 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Burning of Washington : The British Invasion of 1814
		Americans understandably don't like to commemorate the British assault on Washington, D.C. in 1814, when the White House and Capitol went up in flames.
		This low point from the War of 1812 is one of the most shameful events in U.S. military history; perhaps only the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II blemished the country's honor more deeply.
	www.civilliberties.net /constitutional1/1557506922AMUS172385.shtml (185 words)

	The War of 1812
		The British 3rd Brigade, with General Ross and Rear Admiral Cockburn at its head, is the first to enter Washington.
		On the second day, Cockburn goes to the offices of the anti-British National Intelligencer with the intention of putting it to the torch, but a number of neighborhood women beg him not to because they fear the flames will spread to their own homes.
		After the second day of the occupation, the inhabitants of Washington are ordered to remain inside to avoid the risk of death.
	www.galafilm.com /1812/e/events/wash_burn.html (432 words)

	The Road to Washington - British Army Style
		During the War of 1812, while a large force of British naval vessels kept a large portion of the American Navy bottled up in the Elizabeth River, British Navy Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn led a small fleet in the Chesapeake Bay, harassing local ports and shipping.
		Upon entering the city, they found the Washington Navy Yard had already been set aflame by the Americans, so that the military stores there could not be used by the invaders.
		If you have even the slightest interest in the history of the Washington region or the War of 1812, you're missing something if you haven't read this book.
	www.tc-solutions.com /croom/1812.html (821 words)

	Book on 1814 Burning of Washington To Be Discussed
		Writer and historian Anthony S. Pitch will discuss his latest book, The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 (Naval Institute Press, 1998), at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, July 28, at 6 p.m.
		The Burning of Washington is a selection of the History Book Club.
		Anthony Pitch is a former broadcast editor for the Associated Press and senior writer in the books division of U.S. News and World Report.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1998/98-078.html (320 words)

	Washington City Is Burning Study Guide
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	Consuming Fire — The Burning of Washington, Part 1
		The original Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, international treaties, and George Washington's letters were among the items stuffed into the bags.
		The invaders burned government buildings in the American capital.
		Put yourself in the place of a resident of Washington, watching as the seat of government of your new nation goes up in flames.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_293.html (703 words)

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