Re: [DS and SG] Regiments of the Crown

>For the benefit of accurate history, Gwyn Dyer (a Canadian Historian) 
>rightly pointed out that it was in fact not *really* the Canadians 
>the burnt down the whitehouse. It had far more to do with the British 
>Regular Army units than with any particular Canadian contribution. 
>Our irregular forces just can't be considered to have been 
>responsible, with any sort of an objective eye.  

Unfortunately this is true.  I think it was British regular army units
staging out of Bermuda who actually burned down the Whitehouse.  This
raid
was in response to the burning of York (now Toronto) by the Americans,
however, and we like to sneak in the thought that we had something to do
with it...