Dear American Serfs, Servants, and Slaves Please increase your efforts to rob the American Taxpayer through overpriced AstraZeneca drugs used to support the British economy. Colonies are to be exploited. Sunday the British Embassy posted a picture of Patrick Davis, deputy British ambassador to the United States, with a caption saying he was participating in "the anniversary of burning of the White House with a BBQ.” The picture was followed by another, about an hour later, that showed a White House replica atop a sheet cake, flanked by sparklers. The caption said: “Commemorating the 200th anniversary of burning the White House. Only sparklers this time!” British troops on Aug. 24, 1814, charged into Washington, setting the White House on fire and capturing the U.S. Capitol building. Why would ANY American work for this blighted Company ??
The white house burning was actually done by Canadian troops, who were still British subjects at that time.
The Burning of Washington in 1814 was an attack during the War of 1812 between British forces and those of the United States of America. On August 24, 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, a British force led by Major General Robert Ross occupied Washington City and set fire to many public buildings, including the White House and the Capitol, as well as other facilities of the U.S. government. British soldiers were reported to have run amuck in Washington, looting, raping, and burning private homes as well. Robert Ross (1766 – 12 September 1814) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army who participated in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, (1812-1815).
Many of the participating troops in the burning of DC were from what is now Canada, which was then a British Colony and is still a member of the British Commonwealth. Some of these troops had revenge on their minds, as they were former "Tories" who had been forced to flee the US when Britain lost the 13 colonies in the revolutionary war. The top officers leading them were British.
The West Essex Militia were credited with burning over 20 private homes - all soldiers from England. Officers lost control.
Nope, it was at the behest of the Ontario Canadians: An added motive was retaliation for what Britain saw as the "wanton destruction of private property along the north shores of Lake Erie" by American forces under Col. John Campbell in May 1814, the most notable being the Raid on Port Dover.[8] On June 2, 1814, Sir George Prévost, Governor General of The Canadas, wrote to Cochrane at Admiralty House, in Bailey's Bay, Bermuda, calling for a retaliation against the American destruction of private property in violation of the laws of war. Prévost argued that, ...in consequence of the late disgraceful conduct of the American troops in the wanton destruction of private property on the north shores of Lake Erie, in order that if the war with the United States continues you may, should you judge it advisable, assist in inflicting that measure of retaliation which shall deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages.[9] This retaliation was the burning of Washington DC.
it is such a shame us brits had not invented marshmallows by then....... I doubt 10% of brits have even heard of the war of 1812.
Yes too bad, because now the UK is just an insignificant lackey for the great and powerful US. Just a mere shadow of its former so called glory. Yes, too bad.