The gongs won by career soldier John Michell are tipped to fetch £30,000.
Michell was a captain commanding a Royal Artillery battery when he and his gunners set fire to the president’s house and Capitol building in 1814.
Only hours earlier they had been part of a 1,500-strong British force which routed 7,000 American troops at the Battle of Bladensburg in Maryland.
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