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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.
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
Anglo-French War (1557–1559) – part of the Italian War of 1551–1559; English expedition to France (1562–1563) - English intervention in the first of the French Wars of Religion. Anglo-French War (1627–1629) – the English intervention during the Huguenot rebellions; Anglo-French War (1666–1667) – minor corollary of the Second ...
This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of England before the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain by the Acts of Union 1707. For dates after 1708, see List of wars involving the United Kingdom .
Second Ashanti War 1863–1864; Bhutan War 1864–1865; Third Ashanti War 1873–1874; Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878–1880; Anglo-Zulu War 1879; First Boer War 1880–1881; Third Anglo-Burmese War 1885; Mahdist War 1881–1899; Fourth Ashanti War 1894; Anglo-Zanzibar War 1896 (The shortest war in recorded history, which only lasted ...
History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes. Available online for downloading; online volumes; The standard highly detailed full coverage of operations. Haswell, Jock, and John Lewis-Stempel. A Brief History of the British Army (2017). Higham, John, ed.
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The Chickasaw Wars were fought in the first half of the 18th century between the Chickasaw allied with the British against the French and their allies the Choctaws, Quapaw, and Illinois Confederation. The Province of Louisiana extended from Illinois to New Orleans, and the French fought to secure their communications along the Mississippi River.