Canada's Apology to the USA

[Lady's Human]

Canadians didn't burn the White House (Presidential house, as it was called at the time), it was British forces under Rear Admiral Cockburn, who was sent from the peninsular wars in Spain to invade the US.

[GreyhoundGirl]

ROFL !!! With such a serious title, I didn't want to get involved, but after reading the "he is a moron, but it wasn't nice of us to point it out" I was hooked. Really, really funny.

[BC_MoM]

Canadians didn't burn the White House (Presidential house, as it was called at the time), it was British forces under Rear Admiral Cockburn, who was sent from the peninsular wars in Spain to invade the US.

Yes, but at the time Canada was still a child and still under control of the British, so when they went to war - we did too.

[king2005]

Yes, but at the time Canada was still a child and still under control of the British, so when they went to war - we did too.

Thats pretty much what I was going to say.. At that time Canada & British army were pretty much the same people. If I recall correctly, it was lead from Montreal. Such a long trip to burn down a pink building lol

[Reachoutrescue]

Love it! Very funny. You guys are great!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Canadians didn't burn the White House (Presidential house, as it was called at the time), it was British forces under Rear Admiral Cockburn, who was sent from the peninsular wars in Spain to invade the US.

Maybe they write the history books differently in Canada....

At the time, Washington was a minor port with only about 8,000 inhabitants — about 1,300 of whom were slaves. What it lacked in strategic value, however, it made up in symbolic value. The British and Canadians sought revenge on the United States for the destruction they had caused on the capital of Upper Canada (now Ontario) at York (now Toronto) after the Battle of York in 1813. Naval commander George Cockburn wrote that he hoped the destruction of the new republic's capital might demoralize the enemy as well.

[Lady's Human]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House

It was never pink, it was always white, first called the "White House" in 1811 (per wiki and the white house web site)

It's funny how history gets twisted sometimes, and British historians are notorious for it. As an example, in one history of WW2, written by a British historian who has actually done excellent work when not commenting directly on British military history, was the following comment summarizing the strategic bombing campaign in Europe:

"Bomber command was assisted by the 8th US Air force in the bombing of strategic targets in Europe."

Assisted by?

Also, while we did not officially declare war on Herr Schickelgruber's Germany until 1941, US Naval forces in the Atlantic were engaging German U-boats well before that, with the first officially recognized naval battle between US and German forces occurring in 1940. There were contacts well before that. We weren't sitting on the sidelines, we just hadn't actively declared war.

[lizbud]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House

It was never pink, it was always white, first called the "White House" in 1811 (per wiki and the white house web site)

It's funny how history gets twisted sometimes, and British historians are notorious for it. As an example, in one history of WW2, written by a British historian who has actually done excellent work when not commenting directly on British military history, was the following comment summarizing the strategic bombing campaign in Europe:

"Bomber command was assisted by the 8th US Air force in the bombing of strategic targets in Europe."

Assisted by?

Don't ya just love that British humor?

[BC_MoM]

Maybe they write the history books differently in Canada....

All I can say is at least we study other countries and the world! lol

[Edwina's Secretary]

Touché BCMom...touché!

I once toured a WWII museum in Normandy. It was a British/French museum. There was a movie....talked about the "surprisingly audacious Yanks" who helped out in WWII.

The moral of the story is..."whoever builds the museum gets to decide who won the war...."

[caseysmom]

All I can say is at least we study other countries and the world! lol

Yep we completely keep all that out of our book learnen....

[Catty1]

Eight other architects also submitted designs, but Hoban won. The "White House" proposed by Hoban was a refined Georgian mansion in the Palladian style. Built of pale gray sandstone, it would have three floors and more than 100 rooms.

I just HAD to check out the idea of a pink White House. This is one description I found of the original house.

When it was rebuilt after the war of 1812, the sandstone was painted white, largely to hid the burn marks.

Can't find any reference to PINK.