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Washington, D.C. Captured
Washington, D.C. Captured
British forces seized Washington, D.C. in 1814 during the War of 1812, as pictured here in an engraving from Rapin’s History of England. The Capitol Building and the White House were among the buildings destroyed.
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
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