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The White House was extensively damaged by British forces in August 1814: occupying troops set fires that gutted much of the Presidential Mansion’s interior and left the exterior stonework cracked and...
The sources agree on the broad timeline—fire in 1814, rebuilding led by James Hoban completed by 1817, South Portico in 1824 under James Monroe and North Portico around 1829 under Andrew Jackson—yet t...
British forces that burned Washington, D.C., including the White House, in August 1814 were led on land by with significant maritime leadership and operational influence from ; some accounts also name...
built his publishing empire by leveraging wartime contacts to acquire and exploit backlists of scientific journals, aggressively expanding through acquisitions and public listings, cultivating a flamb...
The 1814 Burning of Washington destroyed the White House interior and exterior ornamentation, prompting a rebuilding that restored its fabric but did not result in a major modernization of plumbing or...