You're very welcome.

We don't know how many of the Guard served from 1805 to 1815, but if someone went through the archive, they could find out (and translate).

As well as Drouot at Alava, there are about 5 British men, most famous are the Sweny brothers: share.google/BVdTkNOSa3bI...

Not so, for example, there was General Antoine Drouot, a handful of British officers and a battalion of Imperial Guard, who had acted as marines at Trafalgar & fought at Waterloo.

I do not I'm afraid, but I doubt it'd me burnt, but moved into conditioned storage probably.

It was an act of revenge for York, modern day Toronto being burnt down earlier.

So forgiveness need not be saught. (Not that an eye for an eye is a good policy, but Britain certainly didn't start it)

You're very welcome. It is commonly said.

@alanallport.bsky.social note, probably not the East Essex, as 3 units claim to be the ones.

Perhaps the most interesting part of The Burning of The White House today is three modern unitd claim their predecessors lit the torch:
Royal Marines: 2nd Battalion, Royal Marines
Royal Scots: 21st Regt (Royal North British Fusiliers)
Royal Anglian Regiment: 44th (East Essex).

This was not a war of race, The British Army fought alongside native allies under Tecumsech and included the Colonial Marines (mostly free black slaves).

Perhaps the most interesting part of The Burning of The White House today is three modern unitd claim their predecessors lit the torch:
Royal Marines: 2nd Battalion, Royal Marines
Royal Scots: 21st Regt (Royal North British Fusiliers)
Royal Anglian Regiment: 44th (East Essex).

Part of the Chesapeake campaign of the War of 1812, the burning of Washington/White House followed the Battle of Bladensburg, where a small force of British soliders & Marines under Gen Ross, fought back a much larger American army of regulars & Milita.

not so, it was a white mansion from at least the 1800/1801 renovation. The common myth that the building was white washed due to the burning cannot be true as the surviving walls were torn down and the building completely rebuilt. An inage from 1814 showing the already white walls scorched.