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To: confederatetrappedinmidwest

No I dont think restitution is in order at all.

Everyone quotes the British burning the white house, and some even demand “restitution”. No one ever mentions WHY the usually civilised British indulged in this bit of china smashing.

It was retaliation for the US trashing of the city of York in upper Canada (now Toronto). You got off lightly too. One of the joint commanders of the British expedition had a real downer on “yankees” and wanted to destroy Washington and sow the ground with salt, but his colleague talked him out of it (”Oh no old boy. Can’t do that...making war on civilians? Not the done thing!”) So they just trashed the public buildings.


111 posted on 05/08/2007 8:06:54 AM PDT by Vanders9
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