The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No32 (August 11, 1922)] . otherfor pure sport when there was no de-clared enemy to conquer. Theirladies, in beautifully fashioned crea-tions from Paris, scoffed at the slip-pery, muddy streets as they wereborne along in gold-lacquered palan-quins by muscular slaves. Unlike thestern, rigorous pioneer of New Eng-land, the Louisiana settler waged hiswar against primitive savagery withcareless bravery and maintained atthe same time the social amenitiesof his native land. The old town in which this romanticlife progressed still stands with mansof the building i
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No32 (August 11, 1922)] . otherfor pure sport when there was no de-clared enemy to conquer. Theirladies, in beautifully fashioned crea-tions from Paris, scoffed at the slip-pery, muddy streets as they wereborne along in gold-lacquered palan-quins by muscular slaves. Unlike thestern, rigorous pioneer of New Eng-land, the Louisiana settler waged hiswar against primitive savagery withcareless bravery and maintained atthe same time the social amenitiesof his native land. The old town in which this romanticlife progressed still stands with mansof the building intact, especially thosestrong stone and stucco Spanish struc-tures built after the great fire of cathedral of St. Louis with its twinspires, the cabildo or government houseat its right and the presbytere orpriests dwelling at its left, facing thePlace des Armes, the long rows ofFrench apartment buildings on eitherside of the same square with their deli-cately scrolled iron gallery railings,have scarcely been altered since the AUGUST 11, 1922 PAGE 17. Jackson the raw troops of theregular army battled side byside with recruits from thefamous pirate band of JeanLafitte, with Creoles from thecity and State and withwoodsmen of Kentucky andTennessee. With these invin-cibles Jackson was able to ful-fill his promise to the anxiousladies of the Crescent Citythat they need not fear theenemy because he would neverreach New Orleans, and tothwart the desire of the Eng-lish leader, Pakenham, ofbeauty and booty for Eng-lish troops. The fire of 1788 and theBattle of New Orleans markedthe two periods of greatestmunicipal development. Theconflagration burned the en-tire commercial section of the Revolutionary War days when theywere built. Before 1762 the population of NewOrleans was totally French. In thatyear Louisiana was transferred toSpain by a secret clause in the treatyof Fontainebleau which was not dis-covered in America until a Spanishgovernor sailed up the MississippiRiver and
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