Not really. The war was already over when the battle was fought. It was a moot point.
> Not really. The war was already over when the battle was fought. It was a moot point. <
I guess you're referring to the Battle of New Orleans? Nope, it wasn't a moot point at all. Read some history. The recent biography of Andrew Jackson by H. W. Brands would be an excellent place to start.
The Treaty of Ghent indeed had been signed a few weeks before the Battle of N.O. took place. But it hadn't been ratified by either side. And the virtually unanimous verdict of historians has been that the Battle of N.O. was the most important single event of the entire War of 1812. It was critical not only in insuring that the Treaty be ratified, but also in showing the European powers that the USA was a permanent and strong force with which they must reckon.
(And in retrospect, it seems fortunate that the U. S. Army didn't have a commander with Jackson's super-human willpower to fight on the northern frontier during the War of 1812. With somebody like him up there, we'd probably have taken the whole of Canada long before the British made their ill-fated landing in the swamps of Louisiana. And then we'd find ourselves burdened today with administering the Canadian healthcare system!)