Industrial Age · North America · War

1815

Battle of New Orleans

January 8, 1815

Behind cotton-bale breastworks on the Chalmette plain, Andrew Jackson's mixed force of regulars, Kentucky riflemen, free Black militia, and Jean Lafitte's pirates shot down the cream of Wellington's veteran army. Two thousand British fell in half an hour; Jackson lost fewer than a hundred. The treaty ending the war had been signed two weeks before.

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Before and after in North America

Before: December 24, 1814: Treaty of Ghent
After: March 4, 1817: Monroe Inaugurated

Before and after in War

Before: August 24, 1814: British Burn Washington
After: 1817: Shaka Transforms War

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of New Orleans