When Britain Burned the White House

This stirring military narrative takes readers from the burning of the US capital in 1814 to the anthem-inspiring Battle of Fort McHenry. “A fine example of serious and literate popular history . . . It ranks with Anthony S. Pitch’s fine The Burning of Washington . . . as among the best accounts of a war that hardly deserves to be forgotten.” — Washington Post In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world’s greatest military power. President Jame