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THE CAPITOL DOME 5. Belfast Newsletter, Apr. 19, 1814. 6. Donald E. Graves, "Why the White House was Burned: An Investigation into the British Destruction of Public Buildings at Washington in August 1814," e Journal of Military History 76 (October 2012):1095-1111. 7. Christopher T. George, Terror on the Chesapeake: e War of 1812 on the Bay (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2000). 8. Graves, "Why the White House was Burned." 9. Ibid. 10. Walter Lord, e Dawn's Early Light (New York: Norton, 1972), p. 43: George, Terror on the Chesapeake, p. 66. 11. Graves, "Why the White House was Burned," p. 1114. 12. Michael Crawford, ed., e Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 2002), 3:141. 13. Times (London), May 25, 1861. 14. Oral tradition passed down through General Ross's family to this day suggests that he could not believe how easy his advance was through the Maryland countryside and that this persuaded him to go for Washington. 15. Crawford, Naval War of 1812, 3:72-74. 16. George De Lacy Evans, "Memorandum of operations on the shores of the Chesapeake," National Library of Scotland, Adv MS 46.8.9. 17. Morning Chronicle (London), Sept. 28, 1814. 18. Federal Republican, Jan. 20, 1815; Portsmouth Oracle, Feb. 18, 1815. 19. Torrens to Vansittart, Nov. 11, 1814, National Ar - chives, London, War Office 3/608. 20. James Stuart, Refutation of Aspersions on Stuart's ree Years in North America (London: Whittaker & Co., 1834), pp. 88-89. 21. James Scott, Recollections of a Naval Life (London: R. Bentley, 1834), 3:298. 22. G.R. Gleig, e Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans (1821; 3rd ed., corrected and revised, London: John Murray, 1827), p. 129. 23. T.A.J. Burnett, e Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy: e Life and Times of Scrope Berdmore Davies, (London: Mur - ray, 1981), pp. 223-25. 24. Ibid. 25. Scott, Recollections of a Naval Life, 3:298; Crawford, Naval War of 1812, 3:220-23; MacDougall letter to Times (London), May 25, 1861. 26. Richard N. Cote, Strength and Honor: e Life of Dolley Madison (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Corinthian Books, 2005), p. 303. 27. Mary Hunter, "e Burning of Washington, D.C." New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin (1924): 80-83. 28. Lord, Dawn's Early Light, p. 149. 29. Ibid., p. 161. 30. "Sketches of Private Life and Character of William H. Crawford," Southern Literary Messenger 3 (April 1837): 262-65. 31. Glenn Tucker, Poltroons and Patriots: A Popular Account of the War of 1812 (Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1954), 2:553. 32. Lord, Dawn's Early Light, p. 161. See also Vogel, rough the Perilous Fight, p. 168. 33. Tucker, Poltroons and Patriots, 2:553. 34. Anthony S. Pitch, e Burning of Washington: e British Invasion of 1814, (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998), p. 106. 35. James Ewell, e Medical Companion (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1817), p. 634. 36. Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, 1st ser., vol. 30 (1815), cols. 606-7. 37. MacDougall letter to the Times (London), May 25, 1861. 38. G.C. Moore Smith, ed., e Autobiography of Lieu - tenant-General Sir Harry Smith Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej G.C.B., 2 vols. (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1902), 1:200; Roger Morriss, Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition: Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772–1853 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997), p. 109. 39. Ewell, Medical Companion, p. 641. 40. Charles Jared Ingersoll, Historical Sketch of the Second War between the United States of America and Great Britain (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845-49), 2:190. 41. Ibid. 42. Mary Clemmer Ames, Ten Years in Washington (Hartford, Conn.: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1873), p. 134. 43. Pitch, Burning of Washington, chap. 9. 44. William C. Allen, History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2001), p. 98. 45. Ewell, Medical Companion, p. 642. 46. William Bailey, Records of Patriotism and Love of Country ([Stamford, Eng.]: Drakard and Wilson, 1826), p. 194; Baltimore Gazette, Nov. 23, 1827. 47. Niles' Weekly Register, June 14, 1817. 48. Cited in the Times (London), June 24, 1817. 49. Bailey, Records of Patriotism, p. 194; Stuart, ree Years in North America (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833), 2:87-88. 50. United States Telegraph, Oct. 20, 1827. 51. David Bailie Warden, Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia (Paris: Printed and sold by Smith, 1816), pp. 27-28. 11

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