A Little Trip Along with Gen. Jackson Down the Mighty Missisip
This 1922 illustration show General Andrew Jackson on the breast works in the Battle of New Orleans with his Tennessee Volunteers, Army Regulars, and Jean Lafitte's pirates. Few if any of the Tennesseans would have been in buckskin and coonskin caps, Most had at least fragments of uniforms after months of campaigning against the Creeks and capturing Mobile from the Spanish. Probably the most *important battle* ever fought *after a war ended* occurred on January 8, 1815. Thousands of *British *troops, including *regiments *that had distinguished themselves in the *Napoleonic Wars ... more »
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