Battle Of New Orleans, 1815

Battle Of New Orleans, 1815500 Signed Numbered Overall: 32. 5" x 25" Image: 29" x 18" $225. 00 On the 8th of January 1815 a combination force of: U. S. Regulars and marines, Louisiana Militia, Volunteers of Kentucky, Tennessee and other under the command of Major General Andrew Jackson resoundingly defeated a superior British force advancing on the City of New Orleans. This breathtaking painting by Artist Don Troiani shows the determined attack on Jackson's right flank against

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“… after the retreat of the Americans … he retreated on[to] an island in the Susquehanna River

in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War

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They fought well in the New York Campaign at Fort Washington and later at Pensacola where they surrendered to the Spanish

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The 164th New York was one of the four regiments recruited in the fall of 1862 from Irish-Americans for a brigade to be known as the Corcoran Legion

others abandoned their horses and weapons on the field and escaped on foot to the surrounding woods

and carefully picked his way across the hastily repaired trestle

With Tennessee being the last state to secede in June 1861

about half an inch apart

the heavily outnumbered patriot garrison grimly awaited the inevitable British assault on their positions