The Forgotten Adventures of Dolley Madison

It is with great sadness and no small amount of consternation that I must report “The Forgotten Adventures of Dolley Madison” will not be completed by November of 2011. Whatever disappointment you might be feeling cannot compare to my own, for now I shall have to go out and buy real Christmas gifts for my [...]

  On 25 August 1814, a large British army vanquished the American militia at Bladensburg and marched towards Washington City, six miles to the south. Abandoned by her guards and not knowing the whereabouts of her husband, Dolley Madison stayed behind with only a few servants to safeguard and remove irreplaceable artifacts left in the [...]