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Arrive in washington. Theyre so great. They had a fire in the middle of the 19th century but you can see what remains of them in curved bookcases at the library of congress and its incredible. This man, this renaissance man, every subject you can think of is there. Archaeology. History. Art. Farming. Its all there in different languages. That was thomas jefferson. Amazing. Well, two days before the british arrived, the commandant ordered the navy clerk to get a hold of transport to take 124 barrels of gun powder out of the navy yard into the safety of virginia. Booth settled up across into geo...

Country, that thats more than just a raid, that its a significant moment in International History and so i severely disagree with my canadian counterparts that what happened here was a very important moment in both british and American History. Ive even had canadians say they got the white house. Lets do this. So thats the last question and want to give everyone 30 seconds to close up and geez. So sum up the war of 1812 in 30 seconds and i dont want the audience to forget they will be around, there will be book signings. You dont want to miss that opportunity. Doctor, please start us off. 30 s...

Limits. We passed through the map room, socalled because theres a map of europe over the mantelpiece and it shows the swastika symbols which plot the nazis theres a Little Medicine chest nearby about so big. And its got holes for vials of medicine and you can pull out the drawers. 1 in 1939, a canadian wrote to president roosevelt and his name was archibald canes. And he said, my grandfather was a paymaster aboard the british warship devastation which came up the Potomac River at that time and laid siege to alexandria and oversaw the raiding of the warehouses of Agricultural Produce. But i ch...

The men dropped dead from heat exhaustion. Then they marched 6 months southwest of the capital and then burned the capital and tramped almost a mile down pennsylvania avenue to where they were now. They were famished and thirsty. Admiral George Coburn was the driving force. His superior, Major General robert ross had second thoughts and he wanted to return. And coburn forced him by the influence of his occupants, to proceed. He said weve only got militia men ahead of us. Thats nothing. Weve come so far, we have to continue. He had been recognized by nelson. He acknowledged coburn ability and k...

Hello, and welcome. President trump has said he and his wife melania will begin the quarantine process after his close aide hope hicks tested positive for the coronavirus. She has been travelling with mr trump this week, both to cleveland in ohio for the president ial debate on tuesday and on through wednesday as they moved on to minnesota as part of their Election Campaign. She and a number of colleagues all flew on Board Air Force one along with mr trump and the first lady. Lets speak to our north america correspondent, peter bowes. As we started to pick through this, peter. Isuppose as we s...