The chaos left four people dead. The last time a large, violent group breached the Capitol was over 200 years ago during the War of 1812, when the British invaded Washington, DC. Here's what ...

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The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed ... As the British entered the capital, roads clogged with refugees hauling their possessions.

COLUMN. In 1812, the United States boasted more joint-stock companies than any other nation, with nearly half of them being ...

The riot has been described as the worst assault on the Capitol since the War of 1812. It is not the only such attack since that era. In 1983 a female-led communist group bombed the US Senate.

Was Tchaikovsky a tempest or a drudge? The great Russian composer of iconic works like “The Nutcracker” and the “1812 Overture” is generally thought to have lived a life of melodrama.

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific ...

But the War of 1812? We don’t know why it happened ... The British advanced into the defenseless capital. “Ross couldn’t believe that they’d actually be able to pull this off,” Vogel ...

Four more states reduced its capital crimes: Vermont in 1797, to three; Maryland in 1810, to four; New Hampshire in 1812, to two and Ohio in 1815, to two. Each of these states built state ...

During the War of 1812, hundreds of enslaved African Americans gained their ... D.C., and the burning of the U.S. Capitol in August 1814. Three weeks later, others were repelled in Baltimore, where a ...

But he has repeatedly provided “aid and comfort” to those who waged the first violent attack on our Capitol since the war of 1812, when the British set it on fire. Trump doesn’t belong ...

This small episode is, if nothing else, a reminder of the strange place that the War of 1812 occupies in the historical memory of the United States. But it matters a lot more in Canada where ...