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Re: Burning the Capitol
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http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28833238

"More destruction occurred the following day, when the British torched what remained of the Washington Navy Yard and the Treasury building, along with the brick home of the State, War and Navy departments. They also smashed the presses of a newspaper Cockburn disliked and desecrated a monument dedicated to veterans of the First Barbary War."
http://www.history.com/news/the-british-burn-washington-d-c-200-years-ago

"At the mercy of the British squadron, the town council acceded to the enemy's demands, and for the next five days the British looted stores and warehouses of 16,000 barrels of flour, 1,000 hogsheads of tobacco, 150 bales of cotton and some $5,000 worth of wine, sugar and other items. On September 2, the British weighed anchor and, after a skirmish with American forces at White House Landing below Mount Vernon, they made their escape."
https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic/info/default.aspx?id=78273

In the Chesapeake the British burned and looted farms and even dug up graves looking for loot.

http://www.kentcountyhistory.org/key/1812_terror.php

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