Two hundred years ago today...

[kallend 1,635]

Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

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kallend

Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

Oh please . . . how's the rest of the sun never sets on the British Empire doing?

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[kallend 1,635]

quade

***Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

Oh please . . . how's the rest of the sun never sets on the British Empire doing?

Whoosh.

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kallend

Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

Yeah.. Too bad about them not making it to Baltimore OR New York.... and Andy Jackson got some serious payback a wee bit later outside Narlins.

[kallend 1,635]

Amazon

***Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

Yeah.. Too bad about them not making it to Baltimore OR New York.... and Andy Jackson got some serious payback a wee bit later outside Narlins.

Pity the war was already over when Jackson got involved.

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[CanuckInUSA 0]

100 Years ago today, the saga of Winnie the Pooh began

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

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kallend

******Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

Yeah.. Too bad about them not making it to Baltimore OR New York.... and Andy Jackson got some serious payback a wee bit later outside Narlins.

Pity the war was already over when Jackson got involved.

Not really... the invasion started in early Dec... before the signing... when the Royal Navy started landing regulars south of Narlins...

[kallend 1,635]

Amazon

*********Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

Yeah.. Too bad about them not making it to Baltimore OR New York.... and Andy Jackson got some serious payback a wee bit later outside Narlins.

Pity the war was already over when Jackson got involved.

Not really... the invasion started in early Dec... before the signing... when the Royal Navy started landing regulars south of Narlins...

1814 Dec 24 Treaty of Ghent signed

War was over

1815 Jan 8 Battle of New Orleans

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[kallend 1,635]

CanuckInUSA

100 Years ago today, the saga of Winnie the Pooh began

In the greater scheme of things, probably more relevant.

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kallend

***100 Years ago today, the saga of Winnie the Pooh began

In the greater scheme of things, probably more relevant.Last year the Canadian War Museum had an exhibit commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the war of 1812. They had three separate exhibits, covering the war from the British, American, and Native American perspectives. From the British perspective the conflict in North America was definitely a sideshow. From the American and present-day Canadian perspective the consequences were greater, as the war largely determined the present-day border. Typically for the British they threw their colonists under the bus, unnecessarily ceding territory despite the fact that the Canadians effectively repelled American attempts at invasion and held territory well into the Ohio Valley. From the Native American perspective the war was a disaster, as it led to the British abandoning their alliances with various Native American tribes, leaving them to the genocidal impulses of the "Great Betrayer" (Andrew Jackson), ultimately manifested in the Trail of Tears.

I was surprised at how much of the present political landscape of North America can be traced to the 1812 War.

Don

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“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats)

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kallend

************Two hundred years ago today the British took Washington DC and burned the White House and Capitol.

Some say it's a far bigger disaster for the USA that they gave them back.

Yeah.. Too bad about them not making it to Baltimore OR New York.... and Andy Jackson got some serious payback a wee bit later outside Narlins.

Pity the war was already over when Jackson got involved.

Not really... the invasion started in early Dec... before the signing... when the Royal Navy started landing regulars south of Narlins...

1814 Dec 24 Treaty of Ghent signed

War was over

1815 Jan 8 Battle of New Orleans

From the pesky ole Wiki....

By December 12, 1814, a large British fleet under the command of Sir Alexander Cochrane with more than 8,000 soldiers and sailors aboard, had anchored in the Gulf of Mexico to the east of Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne.[15] Preventing access to the lakes was an American flotilla, commanded by Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones, consisting of five gunboats. On December 14, around 1,200 British sailors and Royal Marines under Captain Nicholas Lockyer[16] set out to attack Catesby's force. Lockyer's men sailed in 42 longboats, each armed with a small carronade. Lockyer captured Catesby's vessels in a brief engagement known as the Battle of Lake Borgne. 17 British sailors were killed and 77 wounded,[17] while 6 Americans were killed, 35 wounded, and 86 captured.[17] The wounded included both Catesby and Lockyer. Now free to navigate Lake Borgne, thousands of British soldiers, under the command of General John Keane, were rowed to Pea Island, about 30 miles (48 km) east of New Orleans, where they established a garrison.

Night attack of December 23[edit]

On the morning of December 23, Keane and a vanguard of 1,800 British soldiers reached the east bank of the Mississippi River, 9 miles (14 km) south of New Orleans.[18] Keane could have attacked the city by advancing for a few hours up the river road, which was undefended all the way to New Orleans, but he made the fateful decision to encamp at Lacoste's Plantation[19] and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.[20] During the afternoon of December 23, after he had learned of the position of the British encampment, Andrew Jackson reportedly said, "By the Eternal they shall not sleep on our soil."[21] This intelligence had been provided by Colonel Thomas Hinds' Squadron of Light Dragoons, a militia unit from the Mississippi Territory.[22][23] That evening, attacking from the north, Jackson led 2,131[24] men in a brief three-pronged assault on the unsuspecting British troops, who were resting in their camp. Then Jackson pulled his forces back to the Rodriguez Canal, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the city. The Americans suffered 24 killed, 115 wounded, and 74 missing,[25] while the British reported their losses as 46 killed, 167 wounded, and 64 missing.[26]

[Remster 24]

Too soon? http://mashable.com/2014/08/25/british-embassy-burning-of-the-white-house

Remster

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Remster

Too soon? http://mashable.com/2014/08/25/british-embassy-burning-of-the-white-house

Don

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Tolerance is the cost we must pay for our adventure in liberty. (Dworkin, 1996)
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats)

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Remster

Too soon? http://mashable.com/2014/08/25/british-embassy-burning-of-the-white-house

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[kallend 1,635]

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The Americans suffered 24 killed, 115 wounded, and 74 missing,[25] while the British reported their losses as 46 killed, 167 wounded, and 64 missing.[26]

Wow, major battle with pretty decisive ass-kicking there. Clearly it compensated for:

"The hasty and disorganized American retreat led to the battle becoming known as the Bladensburg Races from an 1816 poem. The battle was termed "the greatest disgrace ever dealt to American arms" and "the most humiliating episode in American history".[20] The American militia actually fled through the streets of Washington. President James Madison and most of the rest of the federal government had been present at the battle, and had nearly been captured. They too fled the capital, and scattered through Maryland and Virginia. That same night the British entered Washington unopposed and set fire to many of the government buildings in what became known as the Burning of Washington."

Yep!

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Remster

Too soon? http://mashable.com/2014/08/25/british-embassy-burning-of-the-white-house

Redskins isn't offensive, but that tweet needed an apology.

Too funny.

[cgriff 0]

Trying to ensure no one is ever offended by anything is about like bubble wrapping the world, and just as likely to work. People will ALWAYS find something to be offended about. Can we get back to working on real problems yet?

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kallend

*** The Americans suffered 24 killed, 115 wounded, and 74 missing,[25] while the British reported their losses as 46 killed, 167 wounded, and 64 missing.[26]

Wow, major battle with pretty decisive ass-kicking there. Clearly it compensated for:

"The hasty and disorganized American retreat led to the battle becoming known as the Bladensburg Races from an 1816 poem. The battle was termed "the greatest disgrace ever dealt to American arms" and "the most humiliating episode in American history".[20] The American militia actually fled through the streets of Washington. President James Madison and most of the rest of the federal government had been present at the battle, and had nearly been captured. They too fled the capital, and scattered through Maryland and Virginia. That same night the British entered Washington unopposed and set fire to many of the government buildings in what became known as the Burning of Washington."

Yep!

And the British success at Baltimore and then New York.. tell me how that went too

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No good deed goes unpunished, John.

If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama

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Andy9o8

No good deed goes unpunished, John.

If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama

So says Facebook.

However, data from the UN, the World Bank, and the CIA Factbook contradict the claim.

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[JerryBaumchen 1,053]

Hi Andy,

Here is how it works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared



JerryBaumchen

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In other news, The English are still learning how to spell their own language.

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Andy9o8

In other news, The English are still learning how to spell their own language.

Meh - that's Oxford. Their dictionary is definitive.

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