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minus-squareINHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI’m not familiar what’s the history there?
minus-squarelimelight79@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoWar of 1812. They burned the White House.
minus-squareDarleys_Brew@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoThat was the Brits. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/did-canada-burn-down-the-white-house-in-the-war-of-1812.html
minus-squarelimelight79@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoDon’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
minus-squareINHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agoWell today I learned!
minus-squareSinAdjetivos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·24 hours agoReference to the war of 1812, it was still ~50 years before Canada slipped the British leash but there’s some weird nationalist revisionist history surrounding it.
I’m not familiar what’s the history there?
War of 1812. They burned the White House.
That was the Brits.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/did-canada-burn-down-the-white-house-in-the-war-of-1812.html
Don’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
Well today I learned!
Reference to the war of 1812, it was still ~50 years before Canada slipped the British leash but there’s some weird nationalist revisionist history surrounding it.