The commander of British forces in the New Orleans campaign was General Edward Packenham, who lost his life in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. Packenham ws the brother-on-law of ...

The Battle of New Orleans was Britain’s last attempt to regain a stronghold in America. From that day on, Drez notes, the United States ascended on the world’s stage, while the British Empire ...

The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory explores how the British misjudged their opponent and miscalculated the complexities of the battle ground. It also describes why the multi-cultural ...

On Jan. 8, we celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, which ended the War of 1812 with the British. That war was not popular at the time, and has been treated negatively by ...

QUESTION Did any British soldiers survive both the Battle of New Orleans and The Battle of Waterloo? A famous example of this was Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith (1787-1860), better known as Harry ...

The Battle of New Orleans, a military campaign extending from December 1814 through January 1815, was the final engagement between British and American armed forces in the War of 1812. The ...

The Battle of New Orleans, as painted by E. Percy Moran, showing Andrew Jackson emerge victorious over the British Library of Congress When Andrew Jackson arrived in New Orleans in winter 1814 ...

On Jan. 8, 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson led a small, poorly-equipped army to victory against eight thousand British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. The victory made Jackson a national hero.