Monday, January 19, 2015

Jackson Routs The British


Jim's Photo - Gen. Jackson Statue At New Orleans

"There (the British in the New Orleans area) they faced a hastily assembled force consisting mainly of Louisiana militia and volunteers from Kentucky and Tennessee. The British attacked. They lost more than 2,000 men; the Americans, seventy-one.   Source: The New Nation Grows, Volume Two



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