This stirring military narrative takes readers from the burning of the nation's capital to the anthem-inspiring Battle of Fort McHenry. In August 1814, the Unit

With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode

Describes the events of the British invasion and burning of Washington, D.C. in 1814.

Washington burning transports us in time to the very foundig of our nation and its capital. We learn that the Washington we know might never have come to be had

Fifteen-year-old Paul Jennings looked out the window of the President's House. America was at war with Britain, and British soldiers were marching toward Washin