What plantation of George Washington's was nearly destroyed by the British?

Anchored on the Potomac River near Washington's plantation at Mount Vernon, the Brits ordered "a large supply of provisions" be delivered by the estate. Washington's estate manager and cousin, Lund, acquiesced to their request. Washington responded to this, writing, “It would have been a less painful circumstance to me, to have heard, that in consequence of your non-compliance with [the HMS Savage’s request], they had burnt my House, and laid the Plantation in ruins.”

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