Remembering When White House Was Burning, President Was Hiding, and U.S. Was Close to Collapse

Sunday, August 24, 2014 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

Two hundred years ago today British troops seized control of Washington, D.C., and set the White House on fire.

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