Possible White House loot from 1814 at centre of shipwreck dispute

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The Fantome was leading a convoy of ships back to Halifax after British and Canadian troops routed their enemy, sending them fleeing while the invading army looted and then torched the president's house, the capital and all other public buildings.
These two particular warships are under international law, considered property of the British government," Elizabeth Whiting, a spokeswoman with the British High Commission, said Thursday in reference to the Fantome and HMS Tilbury, another wreck off Cape Breton.

Anything on the ship would be British.




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