"The burning of the public buildings by the British was a humiliating defeat that struck at the symbolic heart of the country," the White House Historical Association notes. Yet it also notes ...

They burned the White House to the ground in 1814 ... The war saw key battles, including the burning of Washington, DC, by British forces in 1814 and the defense of Baltimore, which inspired ...

It marks the only time in U.S. history that Washington, D.C. had been occupied by a foreign military. A look at the burning of the White House by British Troops on August 24, 1814.

On Aug. 24, 1814 — 210 years ago Saturday — the British marched into Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol, the White House and most other government facilities in our capital city.

In August 1814, the British brought the war ... Soon the interior of the White House began collapsing into its burning wooden floors. “The spectators stood in awful silence,” a witness reported.

British troops ransacked and torched both the White House and the U.S. Capitol on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812. "The ensuing fire reduced all but one of the capital city's major public ...

“I think it’s critical to recognize that the initial construction of the White House, as well as other early-19th-century projects, like the reconstruction after the burning of the White House ...