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#1541 Ten Things About Dolley Madison

Listening to America

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The History of the Army in DC

There was no sort of rally around the flag so to speak well she didn't have the painting with her at this point that he gone on true okay. The army did not burn any houses that were private residences and they actually left the patent office untouched because the person working there was able to convince them that it would be destruction of all these inventors properties rather than the government properties. But they did burn all of the government buildings and I'm sure did some of the things that an army does when it marches through territory including seizing things and eating things and violence and you name itso I'm sure they were not particularly happy to have this armed force in their town although they did leave pretty quickly

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