Between the US burning of York (Toronto) and the Battle of New Orleans (We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin) British forces burned Washington DC.
Read a blog post on the 200th anniversary at http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/day-white-house-burned/
26 August 2014
TNA blog post: The day the White House burned
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