Posted on 09/28/2007 7:17:34 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
Pass the popcorn ;-)
Who won the last battle of the war? I believe it may have been the Battle of New Orleans where Wellington’s finest fought some American named Jackson
I'm with her 100%...
Does the phrase “We have met the enemy and he is ours” mean anything to you?
The U.S. did win the war. The Brits were out to undo the Revolution and they failed to do so. Sounds like an American victory to me.
At New Orleans, Jackson had a remarkable combination of regulars, militia, free blacks, Indians, and pirates (without whom he would not have been able to hold his trenches, because the pirates provided most of the cannons and virtually all of the expert gunnery, all without Johnny Depp!) It was the previous days' artillery duel, essentially won by the Americans/pirates, that left Packenham with no choice but to try to advance in the open, to a slaughter.
The Americans won the battle of New Orleans but it was fought *after* the peace treaty was signed.
And in spite of the occasional geopolitical disagreements that may pop up, with the trade relations and the world's largest unmilitarized border, each country today is without a doubt one of the strongest allies to the other.
“conquering canada”?
I view it as convincing canada to stop allowing those rascally british insurgents and their mercenaries a second bite at the apple from canadian territory.........
Wrong. Read up a bit on James Madison, the War Hawks and Manifest Destiny. The Americans believed that they should control all of North America and invaded Canada in an attempt to make it happen. After they failed in their objective, they set their sights on Mexico instead.
NOLA needed a pirate to save it. It’s gone downhill since then.
I don't think the cell phone towers had coverage for that area back then :0)
American politics was pretty heated during the runup to the war. The Federalists opposed the whole thing and denounced Madison's supporters as "warhawks".
After the war ended, the Federalist Party pretty much disappeared, political feelings became much more mellow, and the Era of Good Feelings ensued.
I was always under the impression that the U.S. lost the War of 1812. If we had won, then what is now known as southern Ontario — and perhaps everything in Ontario south of the Ottawa and Mattawa Rivers — would have become part of the U.S.
‘Who won the last battle of the war? I believe it may have been the Battle of New Orleans where Wellington’s finest fought some American named Jackson’
They certainly weren’t Wellingtons finest - they were busy defeating Napoleons superpower forces at Waterloo as was Wellington with his 67000 troops. The 8000 sent to New Orleans were strictly what was left over. The dregs we often used to pursue skirmishes in minor colonies.
I’m pretty sure America won most of the battles in Vietnam too, but to call it a victory is a tad optimistic. :)
“The Battle of New Orleans”
Performed by: Zachary Richard
Written by: Jimmy Driftwood
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.
We fired our guns and the British kept a-coming
There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they begin a running,
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Ole Hickory said we could take ‘em by surprise
If we didn’t fire our muskets ‘till we look ‘em in the eyes.
We held our fire ‘til we seen their faces well
Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave ‘em, Well..
[ chorus ]
They ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn’t go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
[ chorus ]
We fired our canons ‘til the barrel melted down
Then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We stuffed his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,
And when we shot the fire off the gator lost his mind.
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