[albertabound]

Ambushed two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent was signed which declared a truce.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Ambushed two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent

So the British Army was out for a leisurely stroll into New Orleans when the US forces jumped up from cotton bales behind the Rodriguez Canal, and ambushed them? Or is your reality that the US attacked the British forces?