The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

The above details show that there were of Jackson's army on the left bank of the river, on active duty, about forty-six hundred men; yet on the battle-line of the eighth of Janu...

General Lambert prudently determined not to risk the safety of his army by another attempt upon works evidently so much beyond our strength. He considered that his chances of su...

Though the batteries of the enemy were in a better position, on a lower plane, and with a narrower front than those of the Americans, the gunners of the latter fired with more p...

It becomes my duty to lay before your Lordship the proceedings of the force lately employed on the right bank of the Mississippi River. Preparations had been made on our side to...

The great chieftain could well afford to pass the slight in silence, hailed as he was by the acclamations of the multitude--the deliverer of the country, and the hero of the nat...

General Adair, supported by the officers of his command, insisted that the statements made in these reports to the departments at Washington were made upon a misapprehension of...

England was at peace with all Europe. Her conquering armies and fleets would be idle for an indefinite period; yet, it would be premature to disband the former or to dismantle t...

On the ninth of December the great English flotilla appeared off Chandeleur Islands, and came to anchor near to Ship Island, the shallowness of the water not permitting the near...

The second invading division of the British army, made up of the Twenty-first, Forty-fourth, and Ninety-third Regiments, with a corps of artillery, in all about twenty-five hund...

From English authorities we learn that there were in the English army, under Pakenham, regiments that had won laurels at Martinique, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees,...

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Adams, Henry, Burns, Isaac, Bennett, George W., Baker, James, Baker, William, Bryan, John, Barnett, William, Champion, Joseph, Cannon, Robert, Cogenom, George, Campton, James, C...

SAMUEL F. MALONE, Captain. ELIAS BUTTON, Lieutenant. DENNIS COCHRAN, Ensign. MATTHEW SIMON, Sergeant. CORNELIUS MANLEY, Sergeant. JAMES MCALISTER, Sergeant. ROBERT T. ANDERSON,...