The Battle of New Orleans and Death of Major General Packenham (sic) on the 8th January 1815, aquatint print engraving by William Edward West (artist) and Joseph Yeager (engraver), 1817

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Key: (1) Major General. Sir Edward Pakenham shot, (2) Major M'Dougall aid de camp, (3) Major General Lambert, (4) Ensign bearing the British Flag, (5 or 6) Shaw Brigade Major wounded, (7) Major General Keane, (8) Coll. Blakeney Commander of the Fusiliers, (9) Staff doctor, (10) Captain of the Regulars, (11) Sir Edward Pakenham's horse, (12) General Gibbs mortally wounded, (13) Colonel Thornton, (14) American battery. - In this impression the soldier identified as (5) is unlettered on the version that includes the key and here (6) is the horse without the soldier that corresponds to (E)

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