[MadMitch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-30829350

[rarestia]

The Battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815 was a result of Britain and America’s War of 1812. US forces defeated a British army in the clash, which is still commemorated in the States today.

[Star Traveler]

Battle of New Orleans - by Johnny Horton
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VL7XS_8qgXM

[teeman8r]

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ipad&p=homer+and+jethro+camp+kookamonga&pcarrier=&pmcc=&pmnc=

Funny take by the masters of son parody...

[MountainYankee]

“We fired our cannon ‘till the barrel melted down, Than we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.”

Johnny Horton is one of my all time favorite American artists.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They’d been given fair warning.

[Kartographer]

My family from my Mother's side:

To. Mr. John Castleman, State of Tennessee, Davidson County near Clover Botom "Father and mother sister and brothers I have thought it my duty to right to you that I am well John & Joseph are like wise well and all the neighbors boys is well. And I think it time to name my rout I have had since I left home first to Pencicola theare we had no fight of consequence only four killed and a few wounded and from thence to New Orleans theare we met with the approach of a leven thousand British about six miles below the town on the night of the 23rd Debr. We had a very hard fight as I should call it…. of the British and lost but few men and retreated back about two miles and did encamp raised up breast works for defence and we still had our pickets and thears a firing at each other and on the 25th cannonading took place and Every day till new years day then they advanced up in about a half mile and then began a cannonading theare was about forty men out of Coffee brigade and out of the first Regement and I was one to support 3 pieces of cannon which was mounted on the levy it was in verry dangerous place theare I saw 3 men with theare side and thighs shot off heavy cannonading from that time till aid Christmas then they maid a change on our breastworks…"

[Tupelo]

I am absolutely amazed at the quality of the photographs, considering their age. 211 years?

[Adder]

From a second story on the site:”Glasgow-born musician Lonnie Donegan (pictured), best known for novelty songs like My Old Man’s A Dustman, had a UK chart hit with the song Battle of New Orleans in the 1950s.”

Uh...who? Wonder if he took Horton’s song and performed it....

[My Old Man.....sounds like a toe-tapper...]

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The article mentions the Light Brigade taking heavy casualties in storming a gun battery. I guess that lesson had been forgotten by the time of the Crimean War.

[Chainmail]

Thank you!

[230FMJ]

BFL

[MaxMax]

No ladders, no do-overs, it’s War and George III deserved worse and anybody serving him.

[Old Sarge]

BUMP

[PUGACHEV]

The article continues the myth that the battle was pointless as it was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the war. In fact, the British had insisted on certain language in the treaty which puzzled the American negotiators at the time. Unaware of the British plans to invade and occupy New Orleans, the Americans conceded the language because it seemed harmlessly redundant. However, if the British had occupied New Orleans, even after the a treaty, the seemingly harmless language would have established their claim to it.

[armydawg505]

What would London have done if the Brits had won at New Orleans?

[HamiltonJay]

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans...