New Orleans

===Battle of New Orleans===
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[[File:Battle of New Orleans.jpg|thumb|The [[Battle of New Orleans (1815)]]]]
[[File:Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans.jpg|alt=Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans : from an actual survey made in 1815|thumb|Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans: from a survey made in 1815<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://coololdphotos.com/rare-1815-plan-of-the-city-and-suburbs-of-new-orleans/ |title=Rare 1815 Plan of the City and Suburbs of New Orleans |last=Tom |date=March 18, 2015 |website=Cool Old Photos |language=en-US |access-date=February 23, 2019 |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223131536/https://coololdphotos.com/rare-1815-plan-of-the-city-and-suburbs-of-new-orleans/ |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
During the final campaign of the [[War of 1812]], the British sent a force of 11,000 in an attempt to capture New Orleans. Despite great challenges, General [[Andrew Jackson]], with support from the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]], successfully cobbled together a force of [[United States Militia|militia]] from Louisiana and [[Mississippi Territory|Mississippi]], [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] regulars, a large contingent of [[Tennessee]] state militia, [[Kentucky]] [[American pioneers|frontiersmen]] and local [[privateer]]s (the latter led by the [[Piracy|pirate]] [[Jean Lafitte]]), to decisively defeat the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]], led by [[Edward Pakenham|Sir Edward Pakenham]], in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.<ref name="Groom2007"/>

The armies had not learned of the [[Treaty of Ghent]], which had been signed on December 24, 1814 (however, the treaty did not call for cessation of hostilities until after both governments had ratified it. The U.S. government ratified it on February 16, 1815). The fighting in Louisiana began in December 1814 and did not end until late January, after the Americans held off the [[Royal Navy]] during a ten-day [[Siege of Fort St. Philip (1815)|siege of Fort St. Philip]] (the Royal Navy went on to capture [[Fort Bowyer]] near [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], before the commanders received news of the peace treaty).<ref name="Groom2007">{{cite book |last=Groom |first=Winston |title=Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nE3S3TnCGk4C |year=2007 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-1-4000-9566-7 |access-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110084854/https://books.google.com/books?id=nE3S3TnCGk4C |url-status=live }}</ref>
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