An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . act, General Jackson proceeded to New Orleans, whichhe reached on the 2d of December. After guarding all the approachesto that city, and providing for the defence of Lakes Borgneand Pon-chartrain, he adopted measures to rid the population of the spies andtraitors which he had good reason to believe were numerous. iMar-tial law was proclaimed, an embargo was laid upon all vessels i
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . act, General Jackson proceeded to New Orleans, whichhe reached on the 2d of December. After guarding all the approachesto that city, and providing for the defence of Lakes Borgneand Pon-chartrain, he adopted measures to rid the population of the spies andtraitors which he had good reason to believe were numerous. iMar-tial law was proclaimed, an embargo was laid upon all vessels inthe harbour ; negroes were impressed and compelled to work onthe fortifications, and the whole militia force of the district wascalled out and placed under arms. The British flotilla of forty-three gun-boats, carrying twelve hun-dred men, attacked the American force of five boats and one hundredand eighty men, on the 14th, and, after a brisk skirmish, compelledthe latter to surrender. This secured to the enemy the commandof Lakes Borgne and Ponchartrain, an advantage which they wereuot slow in improving. Guided by some informers, they took possession of an unfrequented pass on the 23d, captured the pi^kei 65. 514 CAMPAIGN OF 1814. guaid, and pushed forward to the bank of the river. On receivingnews of this movement, Jackson resolved on an imniediate attack,and, collecting about two thousand men, he marched against them atfive in the afternoon. The British force numbered about threethousand, and extended along the river shore half a mile. Theattack was commenced by the American schooner Caroline, which;lighted by the enemys camp-fires, opened upon them a galling dark was the evening, that this was the first intimation to theBritish of the Americans being near. At the same time. GeneralCoffee with his brigade assailed their right, and General Jacksontheir left. A fierce struggle ensued, which was ended only by theoccurrence of a thick fog, when Jackson thought proper to
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