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On this day in 1815, Colonel Jackson took a little trip down the mighty Mississippi
Posted on 1/8/21 at 10:43 am
Posted on 1/8/21 at 10:43 am
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Military History Now@MilHistNow
On this day in 1815, British and American troops fight one of the largest battles of the War of 1812 at New Orleans. Neither army realizes that the two governments have already signed a peace treaty and the conflict has officially been over since Christmas Eve.
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Posted on 1/8/21 at 10:49 am to ornagestorm
we fired our guns and the british kept a-comin
wasn't as many as there was a while ago
wasn't as many as there was a while ago
Posted on 1/8/21 at 10:51 am to ornagestorm
A few months earlier the British tried to stop the electoral college vote at the Capitol and that happened two days ago
We’re living in a simulation
We’re living in a simulation
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:01 am to ornagestorm
Took a little bacon and he took a little beans.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:04 am to ornagestorm
The original Band Of Baws
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:07 am to ornagestorm
I'm just not so sure about them using an alligator as a cannon.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:12 am to GetBackToWork
The battle lasted 25 mins. I imagine the artillery did the most damage. Not the squirrel guns. But still a legendary story. 5300 trained soldiers vs a group that had to yell orders in English French Spanish and Choctaw.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:19 am to GetBackToWork
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I'm just not so sure about them using an alligator as a cannon.
well the gator lost his mind
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:22 am to Nado Jenkins83
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The battle lasted 25 mins. I imagine the artillery did the most damage. Not the squirrel guns. But still a legendary story. 5300 trained soldiers vs a group that had to yell orders in English French Spanish and Choctaw.
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The battle lasted 25 mins. I imagine the artillery did the most damage. Not the squirrel guns. But still a legendary story. 5300 trained soldiers vs a group that had to yell orders in English French Spanish and Choctaw.
Mark Carlton's take in HIST 2071 many years ago was that the artillery won the battle, there was an artillery duel a day or so before that the US won...
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:29 am to vl100butch
Wasn't it mainly because we had Jean Lafitte, the pirate, on our side using his well trained men firing the cannons?
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:31 am to CAD703X
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we fired our guns and the british kept a-comin
wasn't as many as there was a while ago
They ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles. And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:47 am to jeffsdad
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asn't it mainly because we had Jean Lafitte, the pirate, on our side using his well trained men firing the cannons?
Lafitte wasn't on the line, Dominique You and Renato Beluche were at the Number 3 battery...
William Faulkner had a line about Southern boys wanting to be with the Army of Northern Virginia just before Picketts Charge...bullshite, I'm 7th generation NOLA with an ancestor who was a Confederate infantryman...if you're from the NOLA area and have any idea of history, you want to be with Jackson's army the morning of January 8, 1815...
my personal preference is to be with Number 3 battery that early morning and drink some coffee with Andrew Jackson and Dominique You!!!
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:51 am to ornagestorm
Just another white man exploiting people of color to defend their colonialism.
We need to teach our children the REAL herstory of Amerikkka!
We need to teach our children the REAL herstory of Amerikkka!
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:53 am to vl100butch
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my personal preference is to be with Number 3 battery that early morning and drink some coffee with Andrew Jackson and Dominique You!!!
Like a 90% chance Jackson would challenge you to a duel.
That's a hard man.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:53 am to ItzMe1972
Nm
This post was edited on 1/8/21 at 11:59 am
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:58 am to eScott
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I thought that was 1814
He took a trip in 1814 down the mighty Missipp in preparation for the battle on Jan 8, 1815
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:01 pm to Lithium
Thanks, I had to listen to the song again. Now it'll be stuck in my head the rest of the day.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:06 pm to eScott
I like Hank Wilson Jr's (Leon Russell) version myself
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:10 pm to ornagestorm
BBC America had “The Patriot” on last night. Lol
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:12 pm to ornagestorm
I just finished Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Lafitte at the Battle of New Orleans by Winston Groom (author of Forest Gump) for the second time. Pretty good book if anyone is interested in the battle
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