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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, [3] roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, [7] in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana.
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.
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.
Thomas Mullins (died 1823) was a British Army officer of the 44th Regiment of Foot, best known for his misconduct at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.While he performed well during the Chesapeake campaign, his failure to check on the regiment's engineering supplies at New Orleans played a key role in the disorganization and subsequent defeat of the British there.
Having been sent to America, he joined the army under Sir Edward Pakenham, at the Battle of New Orleans, on 6 January 1815, with the 7th and 43rd regiments. In the unsuccessful attack on the American entrenchments, made two days afterwards, he commanded the reserve.
Sir Samuel Gibbs (1770–1815) was an English officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, rising to the rank of major-general. [1] Gibbs was second-in-command under Edward Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans and died of wounds received while leading one of the main columns in the failed British assault.
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]
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.