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The Battle of New Orleans

by Z. F. Smith

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Gulf Coast Campaign, Preceding the Final Struggle
  4. 4General Jackson Assumes Command of the Seventh Military District of…
  5. 5Battle at Mobile Bay — The British Repulsed
  6. 6Assault and Capture of Pensacola, the Spanish Capital of Florida —…
  7. 7Lafitte, the Pirate of the Gulf, and His Sea-rovers, Loyal to the A…
  8. 8Jackson Arrives in New Orleans
  9. 9Battle of the Gunboats With the Fleet of Barges
  10. 10Jackson Declares Martial Law
  11. 11To the Citizens of New Orleans
  12. 12Bayou Bienvenue and the British Spies of the Fishermen’s Village
  13. 13Five Thousand British Troops Enter Bayou Bienvenue and Land Near Vi…
  14. 14Jackson Determines to Attack — Bloody Night-battle of the Twenty-th…
  15. 15Jackson Entrenches at Rodrique’s Old Canal Site
  16. 16The Ship Carolina Burned With Hot Shot — Artillery Duel on the Twen…
  17. 17Defenses on the West Bank of the River
  18. 18A Second Attempt to Breach the American Works, on the First of Janu…
  19. 19A View From the Enemy’s Standpoint
  20. 20Tennessee and Kentucky Troops Arrive — Government Censured for Neglect
  21. 21Jackson’s Entrenched Line, and the Positions of the Troops and Arti…
  22. 22The Artillery Was Distributed on the Line as Follows
  23. 23The Battle of Sunday, the Eighth of January
  24. 24An English Officer’s Account of the Battle
  25. 25British Excuses for Defeat
  26. 26Battle of the Eighth of January on the West Bank of the River
  27. 27Defensive Works and Forces on the West Bank, Opposite Jackson’s Camp
  28. 28The British Cross the River and Land at Daybreak; They Begin the At…
  29. 29“The Kentuckians Ingloriously Fled” — A Profound Sensation
  30. 30A Court of Inquiry Appointed by the Commander-in-chief Exonerates t…
  31. 31Controversy Between Jackson and Adair
  32. 32The Covert Retreat of the British
  33. 33Repulse of the British Fleet Before Fort St. Philip
  34. 34An English Soldier’s View of Defeat
  35. 35Second Attack on Fort Bowyer, Mobile Bay
  36. 36Negotiations for Peace Concluded on the 24th of December, 1814
  37. 37Legislature Suppressed Under Martial Law — Charges of Treasonable U…
  38. 38General Jackson — Clash With the Court
  39. 39Just Like Jackson
  40. 40Humiliation of England
  41. 41Death of Lord Pakenham
  42. 42British Soldiers Won Laurels in European Wars
  43. 43General Andrew Jackson
  44. 44Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky
  45. 45General John Adair
  46. 46Colonel Gabriel Slaughter
  47. 47Kentucky’s Contribution to the War of 1812-15
  48. 48Appendix
  49. 49II — Roll of Field and Staff, Slaughter’s Regiment, Kentucky Detach…
  50. 50III — Roll of Field and Staff, Davis’s Regiment, Kentucky Detached…

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