Today We Celebrate the Time Canada Burned Down the White House

6/7/18
 
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from Rush Limbaugh,
6/18/12:

Two hundred years ago today, a 36-year old America declared war, for the second time, against Great Britain.

Two hundred years ago today, a 36-year old America declared war, for the second time, against Great Britain. The plan was to conquer Canada and wrest North America for the United States once and for all. But, by pretty much all measures, the war was a total mess…

The British and American armies, supplemented by militia and First Nations warriors, pushed back and forth for nearly three years, temporarily trading territory along the Niagara river, and hitting each other at their cores.

York, now Toronto, was captured and looted. And Newark, now Niagara-on-the-Lake, was burned. British forces attacked Washington and torched the White House.

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