The British are coming.
By nightfall on the 24th, British soldiers were setting fir.
America was two years into another war--The War of 1812.
In the early hours before dawn, a cry went out that the British were advancing on Washington, D.
C.
This "biography of a single day" captures the burning of the White House by the British during the War of 1812 from the viewpoint of the people who were there, including First Lady Dolley Madison, a British officer, and a nine-year-old slave.
The British are coming