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After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814, the British burned the U.S. Capitol and destroyed the Library of Congress and its 3000-volume collection in the process. Thomas Jefferson, in retirement at Monticello, offered to sell his personal library to the Library Committee of Congress in order to rebuild the collection of the Congressional Library. On 30 […]