The burning of Washington
the British invasion of 1814
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Author
Publication
1998 - Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
74,500 words, Guess
Page Count
298 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL354100M
- ISBN-139781557506924
- ISBN-101557506922
- OCLC Control Number38542683
- OCLC Control Numberburningofwashing00pitc
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98013805
- Goodreads1276525
- LibraryThing185119
Classifications
- DDC973.5/23
- LCCE356.W3 P49 1998
Alternate Titles
- Washington
Description
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. - Jacket flap.
Description
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.
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