Because it was easier for Europeans to cross the Atlantic than for Chinese to cross the Pacific.
Answer:
On this day in 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.
Answer b on edge got it right
The President was Harry Truman
