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The British intended to burn the building to the ground They set fire to the southern wing first the flames grew so quickly that the British were prevented from collecting enough wood to burn the stone walls completely However the Library of Congress's contents in the northern wing contributed to the flames on that side. Among the items destroyed was the 3,000-volume collection of the Library of Congress and the intricate decorations of the neoclassical columns pediments and sculptures Later though former president Thomas Jefferson donated his personal book collection to start a new Library of Congress, originally designed by William Thornton in 1793 and Benjamin Latrobe in 1803 the wooden ceilings and floors burned and the glass skylights melted because of the intense heat. But the building was not a complete loss the House rotunda the east lobby the staircases and Latrobe's famous Corn-Cob Columns in the Senate entrance hall all survived the Superintendent of the Public Buildings of the City of Washington Thomas Munroe concluded that the loss to the Capitol amounted to $787,163.28 with $457,388.36 for the North wing and main building and $329,774.92 for the South wing. . History[show] War of 1812 Commander of the Continental Army Charles Willson Peale (1776) 2.2.2 Theology.

. Related topics[show] World Tourism Organization: Madrid Compromise of 1850, The last remaining founders also poetically called the "Last of the Romans" lived well into the nineteenth century the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence was Charles Carroll of Carrollton who died in 1832 the last surviving member of the Continental Congress was John Armstrong Jr who died in 1843 He gained this distinction in 1838 upon the death of the only other surviving delegate Paine Wingate. The national debt fell into three categories after the American Revolution the first was the $12 million owed to foreigners mostly money borrowed from France There was general agreement to pay the foreign debts at full value the national government owed $40 million and state governments owed $25 million to Americans who had sold food horses and supplies to the Patriot forces There were also other debts which consisted of promissory notes issued during the war to soldiers merchants and farmers who accepted these payments on the premise that the new Constitution would create a government that would pay these debts eventually. .