August 29-30, 2009

Carlyle House Historic Site & Pohick Bay Park

Northern Virginia’s War of 1812 experience will be recreated August 29-30, 2008 at the Carlyle House and Pohick Bay Regional Park.

At the Carlyle House witness how Alexandrians coped with an invading force on its shores following the burning of Washington and the sacrifices made as British marines and sailors occupied the defenseless city.

Then come to Pohick Bay Regional Park to see how the Americans fought back at the “White House Battery” — manned by sailors of the United States Navy and Virginia militia — exchanged fire with British ships of war on the shore of the Potomac as they withdrew from their occupation of Alexandria under the banner of “Free Trade and Sailor’s Rights”.