Combat· War of 1812
New Orleans Campaign
The New Orleans Campaign was the climactic land operation of the war, the defense of the lower Mississippi against a powerful British expedition under Sir Edward Pakenham.
Andrew Jackson assembled a force of regulars, Louisiana militia, Tennessee and Kentucky volunteers, free men of color, and Jean Lafitte's Baratarians, with a detachment of Marines under Major Daniel Carmick and Lieutenant Francis de Bellevue. The campaign opened with the loss of the gunboat flotilla at Lake Borgne, continued through the night attack on the British camp on 23 December and the artillery duel of 28 December, in which Carmick was badly wounded by a rocket, and reached its climax with the shattering repulse of Pakenham's assault on 8 January. The defense of Fort St. Philip followed. The victory came after the Treaty of Ghent was signed but before word arrived, and it sealed the war with a decisive American success.
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