What did the British do in the Whitehouse before burning it down.
PLEASE HELPP I NEED A RESPONSE AND EXPLAIN IT IN AN EASIER WAY PLEASEE I DONT GET THIS. (Im not allowed to GOOGLE that's why)

On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.

When the British arrived at the White House, they found that President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already fled to safety in Maryland. Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat a meal made of leftover food from the White House scullery using White House dishes and silver before ransacking the presidential mansion and setting it ablaze.