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To: Pharmboy

By any “revisionism”, The Battle Of New Orleans was a not a draw.
from wiki (I think):

Jackson’s army of 4,732 men comprised 968 US Army regulars,[32] 58 US Marines, 106 seamen of the US Naval battalion, 1,060 Louisiana Militia and volunteers (including 462 free people of color), 1,352 Tennessee Militia, 986 Kentucky Militia, 150 Mississippi Militia and 52 Choctaw warriors. Additionally, Jackson had the support of warships in the Mississippi River, including the USS Louisiana, the USS Carolina and the Enterprise, along with the pirate Jean Lafitte and his Baratarians.

At the end of the day, the British had 2,042 casualties: 291 killed (including Generals Pakenham and Gibbs), 1,267 wounded (including General Keane) and 484 captured or missing.[47] The Americans had 71 casualties: 13 dead; 39 wounded, and 19 missing.[4]

ps the British began the events with @7,500 strong


10 posted on 08/30/2014 6:46:24 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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To: HandyDandy

The Brits got their butts handed to them at New Orleans.


11 posted on 08/30/2014 6:55:35 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: HandyDandy

True, but the battle was fought after the war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, thus it had no impact on the outcome. The more significant and important campaign to the history of the US was Jackson’s defeat of the Creeks. It opened up the then Southwest to cotton production, thus the extension of slavery, an institution that was on its last legs along the Atlantic Coast. The economic viability of slavery, the surplus slave population, was a big problem for the southern states. Horseshoe Bend changed the whole situation, and gave slavery a second wind.


28 posted on 08/30/2014 8:00:51 AM PDT by gusty
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