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British troops set fire to the White House British troops set fire to the White House. On this day in 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.
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- On this day, Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at the Blair House in Washington, D.C. Truman escaped unscathed. In the autumn of 1950, the White House was being renovated and President Truman and his family were living in the nearby Blair House on Pennsylvania...
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The White House in Washington DC Illustration of the Burning of Washington, DC, in 1814 during the War of 1812. Only thirteen years after the Presidents' House was completed, disaster struck. The War of 1812 brought invading British armies who set the house afire.The White House, along with the Capitol, was destroyed by 1814.
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- Damage at White House Offices Being Handed Over to the Bush Administration from The Clinton Staff-Truth! Summary of eRumor: When George W. Bush took over the presidency in 2001, his new staff arrived in the offices of the White House to find that there had been widespread pranks and vandalism by the departing Clinton staff.
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HERSH: The White House is lying about the killing of Osama bin Laden HERSH: The White House is lying about the killing of Osama bin Laden. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has a startling new article claiming the White House fed the public lie after lie about how the US killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
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7 Things Once Banned From the White House Beginning with President Benjamin Harrison in 1889, the White House has been home to increasingly elaborate holiday decorations. The Scrooge of the lot was Teddy Roosevelt, who banned anyone from placing a freshly-cut tree inside.
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Bill OâReilly Wants You To Know That The Slaves Who Built The White House Were Well-Fed Bill O'Reilly Wants You To Know That The Slaves Who Built The White House Were Well-Fed. ...and they had decent lodgings too. One of the most poignant moments in Monday night’s speech by first lady Michelle Obama was when she mentioned that her family lives in a White House that was built by slaves. Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called it a “positive comment,” but had to add a clarification: The White House wasn’t built entirely by slaves. “In addition, free blacks, whites and immigrants also worked on the massive building,” he said on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Tuesday night.
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Benghazi: What the report reveals about Hillary Clinton Two years in the making, 800 pages long, gripping in tone, the report of the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi — released Tuesday — is the definitive account of the Sept. 11, 2012, Libya attacks that killed four Americans: Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith and CIA contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
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On This Day: British Troops Burn White House and Capitol On Aug. 24, 1814, British forces set the White House, Capitol, and much of Washington, D.C., ablaze during the War of 1812.
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British Troops Burned the Capitol and the White House in 1814 • The White House Was Burned. Arriving at the president's mansion, Admiral Cockburn reveled in his triumph. He entered the building with his men, and the British began picking up souvenirs. Cockburn took one of Madison's hats, and a cushion from Dolley Madison's chair.
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- NEWS IN BRIEF January 20, 2009. Vol 45 Issue 04 · Politics · George W. Bush · War For The White House. WASHINGTON—George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States of America, passed away painlessly in his sleep Monday night, White House sources confirmed. The 62-year-old Bush was reportedly discovered lying unresponsive in his bed by first lady Laura Bush, a gentle smile still on his lips.
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Everything You Know About The Burning Of Washington Could Be Wrong The usual story is that the British set out deliberately to burn Washington in retaliation for the American forces burning the government buildings of York, the capital of Upper Canada (present-day Toronto) on April 27, 1813.
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Ignored Gaffe: Obama Says Washington, Who Never Lived in the White House, Made 'Some Booze' There Our first president, George Washington, selected the site for the White House in 1791. The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and a competition design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen. After eight years of construction, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house in 1800. During the War of 1812, the British set fire to the President’s House in 1814. James Hoban was appointed to rebuild the house, and President James Monroe moved into the building in 1817.
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Adjectives and Adverbs An adjective is a word or set of words that modifies (i.e., describes) a noun or pronoun. Adjectives may come before the word they modify.
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White House In 1814, during the War of 1812, the White House was set ablaze by British troops during the Burning of Washington, in retaliation for burning Upper Canada's Parliament Buildings in the Battle of York; much of Washington was affected by these fires as well.
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- Advertise. Win McNamee / REUTERS. President George W. Bush listens as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informs him of a second plane hitting the World Trade Center while Bush was conducting a reading seminar at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, in Sarasota, Fla., on Sept. 11, 2001.
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- The town of Pleasant Hill. Missouri was burned by Charles Jennison a...nd his band of Jayhawkers on November 17, 1861. Jayhawkers also burned the towns of Dayton, and Nevada, Missouri. At Kingsville, Missouri the town was burned and nine men killed. In September of 1864 Martin Rice, his son, along with six neighbors were captured by the 9th Kansas Cavalry. The six neighbors, all civilians were murdered, but Rice and his son were spared.
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Who Burned Atlanta? Still, when Sherman occupied the city in September, it was largely intact. It was only with his departure, two months later, that the real burning began. PhotoImages from the burning of Atlanta, November 1864.Credit Library of Congress. To be clear, the wholesale destruction of Atlanta was not Sherman’s intention.
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THE GANG THAT KILLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN John Wilkes Booth (left) and Lewis Thornton Powell were enraged by the President's White House speech on April 11. Three days later, Booth killed Lincoln in Ford's Theater while Powell tried to kill Secretary of State William Seward in his home. Larger photo.
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- 1 William Henry Harrison (1841–1841): killed by an inauguration speech. 2  Zachary Taylor (1849–1850): killed by cherries. 3  Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865): killed by war fever. 4  James Garfield (1881–1881): killed by lack of transparency in government hiring.  William McKinley (1897–1901): killed by wealth inequality.
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- White House principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Trump considered firing FBI Director James B. Comey since the election. White House principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on May 10 said President Trump had considered dismissing FBI Director James B. Comey since winning the presidential election. Trump fired Comey on May 9. (Reuters)
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- The President's home was called The Executive Mansion or the President Palace. One Hundred and Seven Years ago (today) Oct 12, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt decided to … call it The White House because during the war of 1812 the British BURNT down the White House. they rebuilt and painted it white.
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White House Down White House Down is a 2013 American political action thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich about an assault on the White House by a paramilitary group and the Capitol Police Officer who tries to stop them.
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Remembering When White House Was Burning, President Was Hiding, and U.S. Was Close to Collapse Remembering When White House Was Burning, President Was Hiding, and U.S. Was Close to Collapse. 200 years ago today British troops seized control of Washington, D.C. An illustration of the British burning the U.S. Capitol in 1814. The United States and Britain now enjoy a special relationship, but on this day in 1814, a force of battle-hardened British troops overran a poorly armed American militia, seized control of the city of Washington, and set the White House ablaze.
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- October 14, 1871. Horace White, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune, wrote this eyewitness account of the most destructive fire in American history in a letter to Murat Halstead, the editor of the Cincinnati Commercial.
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- Thanks to several presidents, the White House still looks much as it did when it was first built. Our fourth president, James Madison (1809-1817), moved quickly after the British burned the White House. During the War of 1812, the British attacked the nation's capital. James and Dolley Madison escaped capture, but enemy troops torched the President's House on August 24, 1814.