. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... rd Pakenham, thebrother-in-law of theDuke of Wellington,and an officer of triedability, and under himAvere Generals Gibbs,Keene, and Lambert,Veterans of the penin-•sular war. The Americans small flotilla in LakeBorgne, and by ex-traordinary exertions,Jackson managed tocollect a force of five thousand troops, only one thousand of whomwere regulars. On the fourteenth of Decem-ber the British sent their boats into LakeBorgne, and after a severe engagement
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... rd Pakenham, thebrother-in-law of theDuke of Wellington,and an officer of triedability, and under himAvere Generals Gibbs,Keene, and Lambert,Veterans of the penin-•sular war. The Americans small flotilla in LakeBorgne, and by ex-traordinary exertions,Jackson managed tocollect a force of five thousand troops, only one thousand of whomwere regulars. On the fourteenth of Decem-ber the British sent their boats into LakeBorgne, and after a severe engagement cap-tured the American flotilla, and opened theway to the city. On the twenty-second ofDecember the British landed twenty-fourhundred men under General Keene, who-advanced to a point on the bank of the Mis- sissippi, about nine miles below New attacked this party on the night ofthe twenty-third with the regulars andCoffees Tennesseeans dismounted, and drovethem to take shelter behind a levee. Thesuccess of the Americans in this engagementgreatly encouraged them to hope for asimilar issue to th* <inal THE PLAIN OF CHALMETTE—SCENE OF THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. The next day Jackson took position onsolid ground behind a broad and deeptrench that extended across the plain ofChalmette from the Mississippi to an im-passable swamp, and covered his positionwith a line of intrenchments. The British,believing Jacksons force to be muchstronger than it really was, made no attemptto interfere with him for several days, and 542 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. he employed this delay in strengthening hisline with bales of cotton. The British onthe twenty-eighth of December opened aheavy cannonade upon the American replied with energy with his fivepieces of artillery, and the firing was con-tinued without accomplishing anything defi-nite for several hours. On the first ofJanuary, 1815, they attempted a second can-nonade, but the American guns
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