Collection America Under Fire
The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
Clerk Stephen Pleasanton (White House History 35)
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Clerk Stephen Pleasanton (White House History 35)
Clerk Stephen Pleasanton helped to save the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights when the British were marching toward Washington, D.C., in 1814.
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