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Profs & Pints: When Washington Burned
Profs & Pints: When Washington Burned

Mon, Mar 27

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Profs & Pints: When Washington Burned

Hear the riveting tale of how British troops torched the Capitol and White House and burned down nearly all of Washington’s public buildings/ Learn about this event's long-term consequences for the city and the nation as a whole.

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Mar 27, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA

About the event

Profs and Pints DC presents: “When Washington Burned,” a detailed look at the devastating 1814 British attack on the Capitol, with Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history at George Washington University, lecturer at Mount Vernon, and scholar of the American revolution and early American republic.

You’ve probably toured several of Washington’s landmarks, but have you considered those that went up in smoke more than 200 years ago?

Learn about one of our nation’s greatest scares from historian Denver Brunsman, a favorite of Profs and Pints audiences and expert on the War of 1812, which led to the infamous 1814 attack. He’ll tell the riveting tale of how British troops torched the Capitol and White House and burned down nearly all of Washington’s public buildings.

He’ll frame his talk of such mayhem by discussing the origins and significance of the conflict that caused it, the War of 1812. In addition to…

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