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President Madison takes refuge in Brookeville, Maryland

After the fall and burning of Washington, Madison fled the capital and spent the night in Brookeville, Maryland, while the administration reorganized its whereabouts.

President Madison takes refuge in Brookeville, Maryland

Madison's flight highlighted the immediate vulnerability and displacement of the federal government during the British Chesapeake campaign and became a noted episode of wartime crisis management.

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