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The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, [4] roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, [8] in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana.
The history of New Orleans differs significantly with the histories of other cities that were included in the Confederate States of America.Because it was founded by the French and controlled by Spain for a time, New Orleans had a population who were mostly Catholic and had created a more cosmopolitan culture than in some of the Protestant-dominated states of the British colonies.
The unit's nominal commander was Major Louis D'Aquin, but during the battle it was led by Captain Joseph Savary. Consisting of four companies, it distinguished itself during an American sortie against a British encampment on the night of December 23, 1814 and during the main battle near New Orleans on January 8, 1815.
The following units of the British Armed Forces participated in the Battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815. The American order of battle is shown separately.. The Death of Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans by F. O. C. Darley shows the death of British Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Pakenham on 8 January 1815.
Ogden was a New Orleans resident that led a group of mounted local guides. Also missing from the order of battle by Pickles are the Feliciana Dragoons. These, along with the Mississippi Dragoons were the only "dragoons" at the battle)
The Battle of New Orleans, January 1815, by Jean Hyacinthe de Laclotte of the Louisiana Militia. The regiment was dispatched from Fort George to Guernsey in September 1800. [5] It returned to Scotland in September 1802 [6] from where it was deployed to Dublin in February 1803 to assist in quelling an insurrection. [6]
New Orleans had been captured without a battle in the city itself and so it was spared the destruction suffered by many other cities of the American South. It retains a historical flavor, with a wealth of 19th-century structures far beyond the early colonial city boundaries of the French Quarter .
The Death of Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans by F. O. C. Darley shows the death of Sir Edward Pakenham on 8 January 1815. This romanticised portrayal, dating from 1860, has British soldiers wearing Bearskin caps, a headdress not worn since the American Revolutionary War , with kilts, which were not worn in this battle.
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