THE CAPITOL DOME
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"Doubt, Confusion, and Dismay"
Efforts to Save the House and
Senate Records in 1814
By Jane Armstrong Hudiburg
Fig. 1. British troops advancing through the city encountered little opposition from the populace, who had experienced considerable doubt, confusion,
and dismay in the previous days. is fanciful engraving from Richard Miller Devens, Our First Century (1876), depicts the Capitol ablaze but
includes the central section of the building that had not yet been constructed.
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