1.27: The Battle of New Orleans

An invading British army is obliterated by an unlikely coalition: American frontiersmen, French speakers, free men of color, pirates and a hundred kinds more. New Orleans is saved.LEARN MORE:The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. DavisThe British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin ReillyThe Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. ReminiThe Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. PowellThe Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. DavisThe World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette"Jean Lafitte, the Baratarians, and the Battle of New Orleans: A Reappraisal" by Robert C. Vogel"Always 'En Garde': The Effects of Slave Insurrection upon the Louisiana Mentality, 1811-1815" by Junius P. Rodriguez"William Claiborne and New Orleans's Battalion of Color, 1803-1815: Race and the Limits of Federal Power in the Early Republic" by James E. Wainwright"The Battle of New Orleans Reconsidered: Andrew Jackson and Martial Law" by Matthew Warshauer"British Command Decisions Relative to the Battle of New Orleans" by John K. Mahon