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The Buccaneer, a 1938 American adventure film made by Cecil B. DeMille starring Fredric March, was based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The Buccaneer , a 1958 pirate - war film starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte and Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson , is a fictionalization of the privateer Lafitte ...
The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, which was the capital of Louisiana at the time.
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.
Rodriguez Canal is a disused millrace for a sawmill between the Chalmette and Macarty plantations.The dilapidated canal measured about four feet deep by twenty feet wide at the time of the Battle of New Orleans, and stood as a natural battlefield divide between the combatants.
Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana.The cemetery is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) graveyard adjacent to the site that was once the battleground of the Battle of New Orleans, which took place at the end of the War of 1812. [2]
The Battle of New Orleans was an American victory, as the British failed to take the fortifications on the East Bank. The British attack force suffered high casualties, including 291 dead, 1,262 wounded and 484 captured or missing [ 172 ] [ 173 ] whereas American casualties were light with 13 dead, 39 wounded and 19 missing, [ 174 ] according ...
On 20 December 1814, a force of about 10,000 British troops, assembled in Jamaica, landed unopposed at the west end of Lake Borgne, some 15 miles from New Orleans, preparatory to an attempt to seize the city and secure control of the lower Mississippi Valley. Advanced elements pushed quickly toward the river, reaching Villere's Plantation on ...
Battle of New Orleans: Most lop-sided U.S. victory of the war: British had 2037 casualties (KIA, WIA, POW), Americans around 71. [citation needed] 1815 Jan 9– 18 Gulf Coast Siege of Fort St. Philip (1815) Failed British attempt to dislodge U.S. forces at Fort St. Philip, Louisiana that would have blocked efforts to supply the British in New ...