We explore Andrew Jackson's path to New Orleans: His origins. The Creek War. Pensacola. And we see how he set up the American victory at New Orleans—before he even arrived.

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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini

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"'Remember Fort Mims:' Reinterpreting the Origins of the Creek War" by Karl Davis

"'A Slow, Laborious Slaughter': The Battle of Horseshoe Bend" by Thomas Kanon

"British Command Decisions Relative to the Battle of New Orleans" by John K. Mahon

"Red Stick War, 1813–1814" in Massacring Indians: From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee by Roger L. Nichols

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