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The British sacked Washington DC and set the White House on fire during the War of 1812. First Lady Dolly Madison saved many valuable items from the White House when the government fled to Lessburg, Virginia
Dolley would have been 46 when she saved the important papers and artifacts from the White House from the British in 1812.
The White House was burned to the ground in the war of 1812. Mrs. Adams was best known for saving the original presidential paint of George Washington from the White House.
She was First Lady when her husband was elected president. When the British attacked the White House in 1812 she saved a painting of Washington as she ran out the backdoor.
1817 when it was fixed after the fire in 1812 when the British burned the house.
The British sacked Washington DC and set the White House on fire during the War of 1812. First Lady Dolly Madison saved many valuable items from the White House when the government fled to Lessburg, Virginia
Dolly Madison
No, women didn't work in her time. She was First Lady and the woman who saved Washington's painting when the White House was set on fire by the British in 1812. She also planted roses in the White House gardens.
Dolley would have been 46 when she saved the important papers and artifacts from the White House from the British in 1812.
The White House was burned ONCE -By the British during the War of 1812
The White House was burned to the ground in the war of 1812. Mrs. Adams was best known for saving the original presidential paint of George Washington from the White House.
She was First Lady when her husband was elected president. When the British attacked the White House in 1812 she saved a painting of Washington as she ran out the backdoor.
1817 when it was fixed after the fire in 1812 when the British burned the house.
1812 when James Madisonwas president during the war of 1812
War of 1812.
She married a president and had a very great personality. She saved the portrait of George Washington and also saved the Declaration of Independence from the first White House before it got burnt down by the British in the war of 1812.
Dolly Madison saved a painting of George Washington and several impotent documents from the White House before the British burnt it down (along with the capitol building) during the War of 1812.