August 24, 1814 –
The White House and other public buildings in the District of Columbia were torched by the invading British army on this date.
The President’s wife, Dolley Madison and Paul Jennings, her husband’s enslaved manservant, are torn away from Mrs. Madison’s ice cream and candy making duties to save a couple of chairs,
and an unfinished portrait of some dead Virginian Slave holder, Masonite and dope smoker.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 