The world: historical and actual . e than twohours MacDonough gaineda complete victory. Thefire from the land batteriesthen slackened, and, atnightfall, Prevost made ahasty retreat, having lost inkilled, wounded and deser-tions, about twenty-fivehundred men. Early in the war the En-glish had secured the co-operation of disaffected In-dians in Alabama and Florida, especially the Semi-noles, and General Andrew Jackson had been sentsouth to hold the savages and their instigators incheck. Pensacola was then a Spanish port, but theBritish had been allowed to occupy it the same as ifit were a part o
The world: historical and actual . e than twohours MacDonough gaineda complete victory. Thefire from the land batteriesthen slackened, and, atnightfall, Prevost made ahasty retreat, having lost inkilled, wounded and deser-tions, about twenty-fivehundred men. Early in the war the En-glish had secured the co-operation of disaffected In-dians in Alabama and Florida, especially the Semi-noles, and General Andrew Jackson had been sentsouth to hold the savages and their instigators incheck. Pensacola was then a Spanish port, but theBritish had been allowed to occupy it the same as ifit were a part of the British empire. Finally, Jack-son, who was in command at Mobile, marched uponPensacola with three thousand men, seized it anddrove out the English. That was late in 1814. Soonafter, he learned that the enemy proposed to take NewOrleans in retaliation. He lost no time in marchingto its defense. What followed is well told by Ander-son, and we quote from him : Toward the middleof December a British squadron entered Lake Borgne,. carrying 12,000 troops, commanded by Sir EdwardPakenham, the first object of the expedition beingto capture New Orleans. On the 14th a flotilla ofAmerican guuboats was compelled to surrender, and,oil the 23d Jackson made a spirited, though inef-fectual, attack upon an encampment of the enemysvanguard. On the 28th, and again ou the first dayof the new year, the Britisli were unsuccessful incannonading the intrenchments which Jackson hadthrown up four miles from the city. On the 8thof January, 1815, the Brit-ish made a general advanceagainst the enemys in-trenchments ; but volleyafter volley was poured up-on them with such terribleeffect, that they were com-pelled to flee. Pakenhamwas slam, and two thousandof his men were killed,wounded, or taken prison-ers. The Americans lostonly seven killed and sixwounded. This was thefirst and last time in theworlds history that the su-preme battle of a war wasfought after peace had beennegotiated. One more inciden
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