Gen. Andrew Jackson led a small, poorly equipped force to a decisive American victory against 8,000 British troops in the Battle of New Orleans. The invading British Army, under Gen. Edward ...

St. Bernard Parish is set to observe the 208th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans on January 5-8. The Battle of New Orleans, a military campaign extending from December 1814 through January ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Thursday, January 8 marks the 206th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. The Battle of New Orleans was one of the most decisive victories by an American army over a much ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 8, 2015) -- The British never sailed up the Mississippi River during the Battle of New Orleans, fought 200 years ago, Jan. 8, 1815, according to a senior ...

The five principal battle re-enactments of the New Orleans 1815 campaign will ... will be 400-feet long and about 8-feet deep. Beginning January 9, about 1,500 re-enactors of British and American ...

Hundreds of people braved below-freezing wind chill under the 15-star American flag at the Chalmette Battlefield on Thursday (Jan. 8) to launch the commemorations of the Battle of New Orleans ...

On Jan. 8, we celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, which ended the War of 1812 with the British. That war was not popular at the time, and has been treated negatively by ...

On Jan. 8, 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson led a small, poorly-equipped army to victory against eight thousand British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. The victory made Jackson a national hero.

RICHMOND, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1861. The Anniversary of the Battle of New-Orleans was, as usual, celebrated to-day by a military parade, the First Regiment being out in nearly full force. A very ...

who lost his life in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. Packenham ws the brother-on-law of the Duke of Wellington, who led the British at Waterloo. Wellington married Packenham’s sister.

(Tom Gregory) In New Orleans Jackson is hailed as a hero. (Emilie Leumas) After the battle was over, Andrew Jackson asks Dubourg to plan a celebration for the city. And on January 23rd, they have ...