Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoThe White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement lemmy.worldimagemessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up1976arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1960arrow-down1imageThe White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square178fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareINHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoI’m not familiar what’s the history there?
minus-squarelimelight79@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 days agoWar of 1812. They burned the White House.
minus-squareDarleys_Brew@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 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-up5·22 hours agoDon’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
minus-squareSinAdjetivos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day 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.