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What did she do when the British attacked Washington during the War of 1812?

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What did she do when the British attacked Washington during the War of 1812?

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She saved the portrait of George Washington, the state papers, and the red curtains she had had fabricated with the help of Latrobe (see above) when the British attacked the capital in 1814. She became an emblem of courage in the face of the advancing enemy.