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minus-squareINHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoI’m not familiar what’s the history there?
minus-squarelimelight79@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoWar of 1812. They burned the White House.
minus-squareDarleys_Brew@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-up5·1 year agoDon’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
minus-squareINHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWell today I learned!
minus-squareSinAdjetivos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year 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.