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.
Jackson killed the Second National Bank in the 1830s. Best thing he ever did.
Wasn’t quite as many as there was a while before.
Him and Polk and Reagan are my favorites
Hopefully 2nd Trump term will join
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.
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 ...
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.
Absolutly. Jackson was MAG
(Make America Great.)
His picture is coming back to the Oval Office again.
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.
I’ll have to watch The Buccaneer tonight to commemorate it.(1938 version, though the 1958 version is good too)
I enjoyed Brian Kilmeade’s book on the Battle of New Orleans.
Miami Vice - Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
https://youtu.be/impaURplyAc
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.
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.
“I enjoyed Brian Kilmeade’s book on the Battle of New Orleans.”
Same here!
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
We fired once more and they began a running, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of America.
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