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Burning of Washington

Today in History 08/24 (Treaty of St. Louis)

August 24, 2018 by GµårÐïåñ
Makataimeshekiakiak, or Black Hawk, a chief of the Sauk tribe, who resisted the treaty and was the last to sign it. (© MPI/Getty Images)(1816) US and Native American tribes sign treaty
The Council of Three Fires, an alliance of Native American tribes, signs a treaty with the United States. It will be one of 14 treaties signed in the St. Louis area . The tribes relinquish all rights to land that was previously ceded to the United States in 1804 and give up an additional 20-mile strip of land to the US.
The Treaty of St. Louis is the name of a series of treaties signed between the United States and various Native American tribes from 1804 through 1824. The fourteen treaties were all signed in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
Map showing lands ceded in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis in yellow
The land ceded to the United States in the 1804 treaty is shown here in yellow.
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(1816) US and Native American tribes sign treaty.
Also on this day,

79 CE | Vesuvius awakes, darkening skies and burying cities
An ash and cinder plume rockets into the afternoon sky of southern Italy as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with a terrifying force, killing tens of thousands in Pompeii with searing heat and burying them in ash where they lay. The eruption’s flows also consume the city of Herculaneum.
1814 | British set the White House and US Capitol ablaze
President James Madison and First Lady Dolley Madison flee Washington, DC, just ahead of a British commander bent on destruction. After dining at a deserted White House, Major General Robert Ross’ soldiers set fire to the Presidential Mansion, the Capitol, and other public buildings.
1891 | Inventor extraordinaire patents a motion picture camera
With the invention of the light bulb, electric power lines, and the phonograph behind him, Thomas Alva Edison patents his newest invention, the Kinetographic Camera, a movie-recording device he describes as “an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear.”

Today in History 08/24/17

Engraving depicting the destruction of Washington, DC, by British forces on Aug 24, 1814 (© Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-44919)(1814) British set the White House and US Capitol ablaze
President James Madison and First Lady Dolley Madison flee Washington, DC, just ahead of a British commander bent on destruction. After dining at a deserted White House, Major General Robert Ross' soldiers set fire to the Presidential Mansion, the Capitol, and other public buildings.
The Burning of Washington was a British attack against Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812. On August 24, 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, a British force led by Major General Robert Ross occupied Washington and set fire to many public buildings, including the White House, and the Capitol, as well as other facilities of the U.S. government. The attack was in part a retaliation for the recent American destruction of Port Dover in Upper Canada. It marks the only time in U.S. history that Washington, D.C. has been occupied by a foreign force.
Date: Aug 24, 1814

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Posted in: History Tagged: 1814, 1816, 1891, 79 CE, Burning of Washington, history, James Madison, Kinetoscope, Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii, The Council of Three Fires, Thomas Alva Edison, Treaty of St. Louis

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