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The #BritishEmpire was a global murder and looting machine. 😡
But the last 18 days of American violence lead me to cheer the Brits' Major-General #RobertRoss, from #Rostrevor, #County Down. 0n 24 August 1814, Ross led his troops to burn the #WhiteHouse in #WashingtonDC.
Sadly, the presidential mansion was rebuilt. But if #KeirStarmer wants to redeem himself, another fire would be a grand act by #Starmer, and retribution for the war on #Iran. Trump's bulldozers have helpfully started the job.
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18 June 1812 saw the United States declare war on Britain.
Today the war is barely remembered in the UK; if it receives any notice, it is usually as a sideshow to the Napoleonic wars.
This lack of attention stems in part from the resolve of successive British governments in the 20th century to minimize unnecessary friction as they sought to maintain good relations with the USA.
This willed forgetting trickled down into the larger British culture.
Yet, as can be seen from this 1909 illustration of the arms of the Ross-of-Bladensburg family, the war was not consigned to oblivion in the century following its 1815 conclusion.
Robert Ross was the Anglo-Irish commander of the forces that in 1814 defeated the Americans at Bladensburg in Maryland and then marched into D.C, where they set fire to the White House and the Capitol.
(I have no idea why a circumflex has been placed over the E in the illustration.)
In North America, the war has been remembered very differently...
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