January, 2015

Andrew Jackson with the Tennessee forces on the Hickory GroundsAndrew Jackson with the Tennessee forces on the Hickory Grounds. (Photo: Library of Congress)

The Immortal Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans

“Yesterday the british experienced the most bloody butchery ever recorded in American history in an attack which they made against the Strong lines of Genl. Jackson, where they were entirely Slaughtered,” French consul Louis de Tousard wrote a correspondent on January 9, 1815.