By Denise Jewell Gee in The Buffalo News, 30 December, 2013.
“Two hundred years ago this week, the fledgling village of Buffalo was left a smoking pile of rubble.”
Also read “The Burning of Buffalo, 200 Years Ago”, by Christopher Klein in History.com, 30 December, 2013:
“Months before the British famously torched Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, they burned Buffalo, New York, to the ground 200 years ago on December 30, 1813.”