bendog
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Burn baby, BURN
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How freeing the slaves enabled the British to burn Washington
The 1812 war between Britain and the US has been largely forgotten, replaced with a favourable idea of a ‘special relationship’, but things were very different 200 years ago, writes Patrick Cockburn
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