CSPAN3 American History TV September 5, 2014
Accounts are not necessarily the most accurate thing in the world. But if these had been supported by other information, primary documents, id be more likely to believe that they also burned but i cant find any of that. I just want to remind you that the americans were very upset about what was going on and when they talked about what had happened to washington, they tend to embellish the true facts. And then if you go down below, these were the things that were burnt after the evening of august 24th. So a better way to look at all of this is to compare what was actually burned on the evening ...