Instead of completing the destruction of the city and then occupying it afterward, the remaining storm battered British troops were ordered back to their ships the next day. The one and only time foreign troops landed on US soil with the aim of taking over of course eventually ended in American victory and established the United States as a world power that would prosper for decades to come as a homeland for the White Europeans and their posterity, as its founders had intended.
"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." - Isaiah 54:17