An invading British army is obliterated by an unlikely coalition: American frontiersmen, French speakers, free men of color, pirates and a hundred kinds more. New Orleans is saved.

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The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

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

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

"Jean Lafitte, the Baratarians, and the Battle of New Orleans: A Reappraisal" by Robert C. Vogel

"Always 'En Garde': The Effects of Slave Insurrection upon the Louisiana Mentality, 1811-1815" by Junius P. Rodriguez

"William Claiborne and New Orleans's Battalion of Color, 1803-1815: Race and the Limits of Federal Power in the Early Republic" by James E. Wainwright

"The Battle of New Orleans Reconsidered: Andrew Jackson and Martial Law" by Matthew Warshauer

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

The Americans build a wall to defend New Orleans. The British army pays for it.

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The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

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

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

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

Gabriel Villeré escapes the British invaders. Jackson attacks them immediately. As a thick fog rolls in below New Orleans, both sides manage feats of strength.

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The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

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

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

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

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The British take the bad route to New Orleans. It is very cold.

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The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

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

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

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

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Andrew Jackson races to prepare New Orleans before the British invasion. The Lafittes cut a deal. An urgent message arrives from downriver.

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The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

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

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

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

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

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

"'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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The War of 1812 begins! Seven weeks after Louisiana wins statehood, America declares war on Britain. It goes poorly. Britain puts New Orleans in its sights, and the militias—particularly, black militias—are, for now, its best defense.

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

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

"'The Preservation of Good Order': William C. C. Claiborne and the Militia of the Louisiana Provisional Government, 1803–1805" by Joseph F. Stoltz III

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

"Mr. Jefferson's Creoles: The Battalion D'Orleans and the Americanization of Creole Louisiana, 1803–1815" by Paul D. Gelpi, Jr.

"William Claiborne and New Orleans's Battalion of Color, 1803–1815: Race and the Limits of Federal Power in the Early Republic" by James E. Wainwright

"Always 'En Garde': The Effects of the Slave Insurrection Upon the Louisiana Mentality, 1811–1815" by Junius P. Rodriguez

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Pirate leader Jean Lafitte has a critical decision to make. So does the U.S. Navy. Nothing less is at stake than the future of Barataria Bay—and New Orleans.

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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

"Jean Lafitte and the British Offer of 1814" by John Sugden

"The Patterson and Ross Raid on Barataria, September 1814" by Robert C. Vogel

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

Jean and Pierre Lafitte fight the law in the bays and bayous of Louisiana. The Lafittes usually win (or at least escape). But the Navy and New Orleans gear up for a big showdown with the pirates of Barataria Bay.

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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

"The Patterson and Ross Raid on Barataria, September 1814" by Robert C. Vogel

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

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Piracy explodes in the Gulf. Pierre and Jean Lafitte establish a pirate empire in Barataria Bay. Despite Jefferson's embargo, New Orleans residents enjoy tons of cheap, illegal goods.

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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

"The Patterson and Ross Raid on Barataria, September 1814" by Robert C. Vogel

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

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