[the scotsman]

But the American viewpoint continues the myth that the battle was the last battle and decisive. In fact, the British simply marched away and took Mobile.

[Lurker]

” In fact, the British simply marched away and took Mobile.”

Fat lot of good it did for them.

L

[Verginius Rufus]

If the British had won the battle and captured New Orleans, they could have continued the war and demanded territorial concessions from the US, despite the Treaty of Ghent (which had not yet been ratified).

Gen. Edward Pakenham (1778-1815), who was killed in the battle of New Orleans, was the first cousin of Richard Pakenham (1797-1868), the British diplomat who negotiated the Oregon Treaty in 1846 which divided the Oregon Territory between the US and British North America. Both were born in County Westmeath, Ireland.

[PUGACHEV]

It is certainly an interesting and overlooked period of history. There are really not enough books that one can read about it. The British never actually took Mobile. They forced the surrender of Ft. Bowyer, and prepared to attack the city, but Admiral Cochrane called it off when news of the Treaty of Ghent finally arrived two days later.

What I have always thought interesting, and ironic considering the outcome, was how elaborate were the British preparations for the attack on New Orleans. There were literally shiploads of clerks and scribes, their families, and their goods in Cochrane's fleet waiting offshore for the thoughtful purpose of establishing an efficient civil administration in New Orleans once it had been captured. The way things turned out, they never set foot on land.