Today Is The 203rd Anniversary Of Andrew Jackson’s Victory At The Battle Of New Orleans – America’s Second War For Independence

“I thank God that my life has been spent in a land of liberty, and that He has given me a heart to love my country with the affection of a son.” Farewell Address of President Andrew Jackson Today, January 8th, is the 203rd anniversary of General Andrew Jackson’s historic victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans.   On Sunday, January 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson led a band of vastly outnumbered Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi state militia, free blacks, local civilians, French pirates, Choctaw and Creole volunteers and some Army regulars and destroyed the most modern and powerful army in the world, while the Orleans Battalion band played Yankee Doodle. The British military establishment was stunned. How could this happen? They believed that Americans would refuse to fight Britain’s highly-disciplined military force, that Louisianans would throw off their allegiance to the United States and side with the.

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