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Image: Nova Scotia DSC07295 - Major General Ross & the White House (35073189944)

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Description: The portrait is of Major General Ross who came to North America in 1814 to command the British army on the east coast of the United States. He captured Washington D.C. and burned the public buildings, including the White House. He was killed in Baltimore and buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ross's body was preserved in a barrel of 586 litres (129 gallons) of Jamaican rum, his body was shipped on the British ship HMS Royal Oak to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his body was interred on 29 September 1814 in the Old Burying Ground.
Title: Nova Scotia DSC07295 - Major General Ross & the White House (35073189944)
Credit: DSC07295 - Major General Ross & the White House
Author: Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada
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