History of Washington, D.C. problems, and plans for further construction to reach the Ohio River were abandoned. During the War of 1812, British forces conducted an expedition between August 19 and 29, 1814, that took and burned the capital city. On August 24, the British routed an American militia, which had gathered at Bladensburg, Maryland to protect the capital (see Battle of Bladensburg). The militia then abandoned Washington without a fight. President James Madison and the remainder of the U.S. government fled the capital shortly before the British arrived. The British then entered and burned the capital during the most notably destructive raid of
HMS Prince Regent (1814) However, no buyer's were found and the vessel sank in Deadman Bay in the mid-1830s. The wrecksite, along with those of "St Lawrence" and "Princess Charlotte" were designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2015. Notes Citations Bibliography HMS Prince Regent (1814) HMS "Prince Regent was a 56-gun British warship that served on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. "Prince Regent" was built at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Upper Canada and launched on 14 April 1814. Rated as a fourth-rate frigate, "Prince Regent" took part in the Raid on Fort Oswego in 1814. Following the