he came to the attention of the greatest admiral of the day, horatio nelson, who described coburn as being brave, courageous and zell outside. zealous. and coburn was later selected by the british military to take the former emperor napoleon into skyle on t exile and while walking the deck coburn wrote in his diary that napoleon tried to act still as a sovereign. i cannot allow that. that shows how overbearing he was. what kind of character he was. >> our topic is the burning of washington. the british invasion of 1814, and our guest is the author of the book, anthony pitch. we hear from princeton, new jersey, next. theresa, welcome to the program. >> caller: thank you. it's a telling image to think about dolley saving some of her husband's paper, burt i would like to know what efforts were made to save government papers in general before the attack, and was there changes, how they were kept after that? >> that's a good question. dolley did save a lot of the papers. her husband had asked her to do that. she got a carriage the day before the british arrived. it was filled mostly with