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1.27: The Battle of New Orleans

1.27: The Battle of New Orleans

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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.


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The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

The 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

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his approach to telling the history of New Orleans kept me tuned in. Loved it

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