USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On this day in 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson led a small, poorly equipped army to victory against 8, 000 British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson became a hero (and later the seventh president of the United States).

Detailed explanation-2: -5. Why was the early fighting in the Battle of New Orleans considered a strategic military victory, even though it was a tactical defeat? It allowed Jackson time to build earthworks and defenses to hold off a superior force. It led to Andrew Jackson’s becoming a popular American hero.

Detailed explanation-3: -Just two weeks after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieves the greatest American victory of the War of 1812 at the Battle of New Orleans.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the Battle of New Orleans, about 50 Baratarians manned the guns on American battleships and operated the land batteries. Jackson and Lafitte got along so well that the privateer became Jackson’s unofficial aide-de-camp.