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• Burning of Washington
• Capture of Washington by the British (1814)

• The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. (2 volumes in one, covering all of Smith's life; London: John Murray, 1903), by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith, contrib. by Juana María de los Delores de León Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith: 1787-1819, by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith (HTML in New Zealand)

• Commodore Barney's Young Spies: A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1907), by James Otis, illust. by J. Watson Davis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co. (et al.), 1873), by Mary Clemmer (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co. (et al.), 1874), by Mary Clemmer (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Washington and its Romance (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Thomas Nelson Page, illust. by Walter O. Reese and Emily Shaw Reese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington, Outside and Inside: A Picture and a Narrative of the Origin, Growth, Excellencies, Abuses, Beauties, and Personages of Our Governing City (1873), by George Alfred Townsend (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Siege of Washington, D.C., Written Expressly for Little People, by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)
• My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Old Capitol and Its Inmates, by Virginia Lomax (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1868), by Elizabeth Keckley
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865 (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1934), by Jane Grey Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital (National Park Service source book series #4; Washintgton, GPO, 1946), ed. by Saul Kussiel Padover, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Court Circles of the Republic, or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation: Illustrating Life and Society Under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations from Washington to Grant (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co.; et al., 1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The Court Circles of the Republic, or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation: Illustrating Life and Society Under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations from Washington to Grant (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Pub. Co., ca. 1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Greek Letter Men of Washington (New York: Umbdenstock Pub. Co., 1900), by W. J. Maxwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mirrors of Washington, by Clinton W. Gilbert and John Kirby (Gutenberg text)

• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics, by William C. Allen (PDF files at gpo.gov)

• The History of Howard University, Washington, D.C., by the Late President William W. Patton, D.D., Ll.D.: 1867 to 1888 (Washington: Industrial Dept., Howard University, 1896), by William W. Patton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The U. S. Campaign of 1813 to Capture Montreal (Huntington, PQ: Gleaner Office, 1914), by Robert Sellar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Short Chronology: The War of 1812 in the Northwest, by Richard C. Knopf (HTML at ohiohistory.org)

• Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama; and Other Poems (Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1887), by Sarah Anne Curzon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The U. S. Campaign of 1813 to Capture Montreal (Huntington, PQ: Gleaner Office, 1914), by Robert Sellar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Relics of the Mound Builders (c. 1874), by C. C. Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fort Harrison on the Banks of The Wabash, 1812-1912 (Terre Haute, IN: Moore-Langen Printing Co, 1912), by J. T. Scovell (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and the War on the Lakes (New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1905), by Olin L. Lyman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Lest We Forget": Oliver Hazard Perry, the War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Erie, The Centennial Celebration (with some inserted related newspaper clippings; 1912), by Annette P. Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historical Sketches: A Memorial of the Hundredth Anniversary of the War of 1812-14 (Niagara Falls, ON: Lundy's Lane Historical Society, 1912), by Robert W. Geary (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Louisiana in the War of 1812 (c1963), by Powell A. Casey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Naval War of 1812: or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain, to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans, by Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg text)

• Elsie at Viamede (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1892), by Martha Finley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "A Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life" (Chicago: Printed for the author, 1858), by James Roberts (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "A Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life" (Chicago: Printed for the author, 1858), by James Roberts (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Battle of Queenston Heights, October 13th, 1812 (1899), by Sarah Anne Curzon, contrib. by Matilda Ridout Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Historic Banner: A Paper Read on February 8th, 1896, by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Remember the Raisin! Kentucky and Kentuckians in the Battles and Massacre at Frenchtown, Michigan Territory, in the War of 1812 (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1961), by G. Glenn Clift (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battle of York: An Account of the Eight Hours' Battle From the Humber Bay to the Old Fort in the Defence of York on 27th April, 1813 (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1913), by Barlow Cumberland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The 8th King's Regiment: A Curiosity in its Annals (Toronto: Copp, Clark Co., 1894), by Henry Scadding (multiple formats at archive.org)