. A brief history of the United States . BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. steadily,! in solid columns, heedless of the artillery firewhich swept their ranks, until they came within range ofthe Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen, when they officers rallied them again and again. General Pak-enham fell in the arms of the same officer who had caught * Jackson at first made his intrenchments in part of cotton-bales, but a red-hotcannon-ball havin<? fired the cotton and scattered the burning fragments among thebarrels of gunpowder, it was found necessary to remove the cotton entirely. Theonly de
. A brief history of the United States . BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. steadily,! in solid columns, heedless of the artillery firewhich swept their ranks, until they came within range ofthe Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen, when they officers rallied them again and again. General Pak-enham fell in the arms of the same officer who had caught * Jackson at first made his intrenchments in part of cotton-bales, but a red-hotcannon-ball havin<? fired the cotton and scattered the burning fragments among thebarrels of gunpowder, it was found necessary to remove the cotton entirely. Theonly defence of the Americans in this battle was a bank of earth, five feet high, and aditch in front. t The British were tried and disciplined troops, while very few of the Americanshad ever seen fighting. Besides, the British were nearly double their number. Butour men were accustomed to the use of the rifle, and were the best marksmen in theworld. iSlSl MADISONS ADMINISTRATION-. 17] General Ross as he fell at Baltimore. Neither discipline n
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