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Dolly Madison was told by President James Madison of the arrival of the British. She was told to flee. As she began to fled, she grabbed the portrait of the only George Washington portrait which had the original documents of the Declaration and the Constitution behind it. She escaped just in time of the British invasion and was send to The Bank Of Maryland for safekeeping.

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