Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 个月前The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement lemmy.worldimagemessage-square180linkfedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down116file-text
arrow-up11Karrow-down1imageThe White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 个月前message-square180linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareINHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 个月前I’m not familiar what’s the history there?
minus-squarelimelight79@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 个月前War of 1812. They burned the White House.
minus-squareDarleys_Brew@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 个月前That 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-up5·2 个月前Don’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
minus-squareSinAdjetivos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 个月前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.
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.