In retaliation for the sack of York, Upper Canada (Toronto, Ontario) a year previous, Major General Robert Ross, commanding a force of 4,500 British regulars and Royal Marines, orders the pillaging of the District of Columbia.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 74.
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