. A history of Louisiana . statement about cotton bales used in intrenchments—Jacksons gen-eral orders—An Englishmans opinion of the campaign. S soon as the British had reached Vil-leres plantation, Colonel Thorntonurged that New Orleans be attackedimmediately. General Keane de-cided to wait for reinforcements, andthus he gave time to Jackson to col-lect his troops. The American gen-eral did not lose a minute: he ordered the alarm-gun to befired, sent for Coffee and Carroll, who were four milesabove the city, and for Major Plauche, who was at BayouSt. John, and marched against the British. The
. A history of Louisiana . statement about cotton bales used in intrenchments—Jacksons gen-eral orders—An Englishmans opinion of the campaign. S soon as the British had reached Vil-leres plantation, Colonel Thorntonurged that New Orleans be attackedimmediately. General Keane de-cided to wait for reinforcements, andthus he gave time to Jackson to col-lect his troops. The American gen-eral did not lose a minute: he ordered the alarm-gun to befired, sent for Coffee and Carroll, who were four milesabove the city, and for Major Plauche, who was at BayouSt. John, and marched against the British. There wereCoffees mounted Tennessee riflemen and the volunteerdragoons of the Mississippi Territory, Beales OrleansRifle Company, Daquins free men of color, eighteenChoctaw Indians, Bakers Forty-fourth Regiment, andPlauches battalion. There were two field-guns, andCommodore Patterson was on board the schooner Caro-lina, which was to take a station opposite the Claiborne, with four regiments of Louisiana 112. 1814] . DECEMBER 23 113 militia and one company of horse, was stationed in theplain of Gentilly to protect the city from an attack in thedirection of Chef Menteur. As Jacksons army advanced, a negro was capturedwith copies of a proclamation in French and Spanish,signed by Keane and Cochrane, as follows: Louisiani-ans! remain quiet in your houses; your slaves shall be pre-served to you, and your property respected. We makewar only against Americans. The British still foolishlybelieved that the Louisianians were not Americans; butthey were soon to be The proclamation wasposted on the fences all along the road below the planta-tion of De La Ronde. The owner of the plantation, Colo-nel de La Ronde, accompanied General Coffee as a vol-unteer and as a guide. The plantations on which the bat-tles of December, 1814, and January, 1815, were foughtwere Villeres, Lacostes, De La Rondes, Bienvenus, andChalmettes. The headquarters of the British were inGener
Size: 1595px × 1566px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidhistoryoflou, bookyear1904
