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210th Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans.

Posted on 01/08/2025 1:25:17 PM PST by cowboyusa

Celebrating the day that Andrew Jackson (Trump's Political hero) drove the British from the US for good.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: 1812; andrewjackson; battleofneworleans; godsgravesglyphs; neworleans; war
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1 posted on 01/08/2025 1:25:17 PM PST by cowboyusa
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To: cowboyusa

Jackson killed the Second National Bank in the 1830s. Best thing he ever did.


2 posted on 01/08/2025 1:27:24 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: cowboyusa

Wasn’t quite as many as there was a while before.


3 posted on 01/08/2025 1:29:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Him and Polk and Reagan are my favorites
Hopefully 2nd Trump term will join


4 posted on 01/08/2025 1:31:45 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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All the left is like to say that that Battle of New Orleans did not matter because the Treaty of Ghent that ended the war was signed a few weeks before the battle. The one-sided a55-kicking of the British Army kept the British honoring the treaty by keeping their heads down.


5 posted on 01/08/2025 1:32:10 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: cowboyusa

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans ...


6 posted on 01/08/2025 1:35:54 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: cowboyusa

Although the Treaty of Ghent formally ended the War of 1812 a couple of weeks prior to the Battle of New Orleans, one has to wonder how history might have changed had the British won the battle and taken New Orleans.


7 posted on 01/08/2025 1:36:55 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: wildcard_redneck

Absolutly. Jackson was MAG
(Make America Great.)


8 posted on 01/08/2025 1:40:43 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

His picture is coming back to the Oval Office again.


9 posted on 01/08/2025 1:41:27 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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I don’t think these things, these old heroes, old battles, old wars, old folk songs about our people and our nation, the Daniel Boones and Paul Bunyans and Johnny Appleseeds, “go West young man” are being taught anymore in the government schools by the union teachers, and if they are mentioned at all, it would be as a warning to the new Americans what and who they must forever fight against and overcome.


10 posted on 01/08/2025 1:45:56 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Better that whopping the Brits and thereby assuring western expansion>? I don't think so.
11 posted on 01/08/2025 1:50:06 PM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other, Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: cowboyusa

I’ll have to watch The Buccaneer tonight to commemorate it.(1938 version, though the 1958 version is good too)


12 posted on 01/08/2025 1:51:49 PM PST by cld51860 ("This business will get out of control...")
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To: cowboyusa
Believe it not Deep Purple did a cover of The The Battle of New Orleans and its not half bad

Deep Purple - The Battle of New Orleans
13 posted on 01/08/2025 1:52:49 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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I enjoyed Brian Kilmeade’s book on the Battle of New Orleans.


14 posted on 01/08/2025 1:53:53 PM PST by KingLudd
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Miami Vice - Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
https://youtu.be/impaURplyAc


15 posted on 01/08/2025 1:56:09 PM PST by mairdie
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To: wildcard_redneck

They say that, but had the Brits wiped out his force and seized New Orleans, that treaty would have been instantly ignored.

That battle forced the Brits to live up to it. It utterly shocked them. Those were some of their best units, not some rabble.


16 posted on 01/08/2025 2:06:42 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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I’ve only read one book on the subject and that was Yeager’s and Kilmeade’s “Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny”

I thought it was a good read that explained the matter very well.


17 posted on 01/08/2025 2:23:35 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: KingLudd

“I enjoyed Brian Kilmeade’s book on the Battle of New Orleans.”

Same here!


18 posted on 01/08/2025 2:24:51 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: cowboyusa

What a coincidence. Just the other day I was watching a movie about Andrew Jackson. “The President’s Lady” starring Charlton Heston, and Susan Hayward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwZSRsoHVPk


19 posted on 01/08/2025 2:31:31 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: BenLurkin

We fired once more and they began a running, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of America.


20 posted on 01/08/2025 2:35:59 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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