Very American cope meme.
This Scroll of Truth was written in copium. Got it.
Then why is everyone still talking about it? Seems like a pretty solid morale victory to me.
Exactly. If it happened once, it’s now a thing that can happen. People still talk about guillotines, and even if nobody is planning on making or using one it’s a reminder of possibilities.
People aren’t planning but they’re certainly hoping.
Burn it again
How does burning down the capital of your enemy qualify as a minor moral victory? Like I agree it’s a moral victory, it wasn’t a strategic triumph, but in what world is it minor? In terms of moral victories burning down your enemy’s house, right before they were about to eat dinner, seems pretty high up there. What is a moral victory mean if not that?
Not only that, but they could have burned the whole city, but they held back because it wasn’t the “gentlemanly” thing to do. Instead they just burned certain government and military buildings. It was in retaliation for the burning of York (the current location of Toronto, then the capital of the province of Upper Canada) when the Americans did actually burn large parts of the city down.
Did it have a major impact on the war? Probably not. Was it a major military setback? Probably not. OTOH it was probably embarrassing to the Americans and upsetting to the residents of Washington, especially because the US forces abandoned the city when they saw the British army coming because they knew they were outmatched. I don’t think the public would get over that very quickly.
The fact that we still talk about it today shows that it was really meaningful. Not many countries have their capitals sacked in a war and then survive after the war is over.
Major propaganda victory. But yes, it was not a major strategic success.
Nooooo my Canadian lore!
I wonder what kinds of things were looted before they burned it and how much of it survives in hidden collections to this day?
Do you mean moral victory? I mean I’m sure it was somewhat of a morale victory, but that’s not the usual idiom.
I stopped reading at “literally”.
