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Originally posted by Nysus
So you fought to be murderers and not free your people?  And I think you need to realize "we" are not "them" ... quite a few generations have passed and cultures changed/evolved, etc.
And you should know we wouldn't do anything like that again, as the last apology said, we know what happens to people you don't like... ;)
Cheers,
Matt
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What are you talking about?
Fight to be murderers? No my family defended New Orleans in the Battle of New Orleans and Chalmette battle, defeating you. and ultimately ending the war of 1812.
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"Chalmette" takes its name from the Louisiana plantation where General Andrew Jackson led a collection of American militia, frontiersmen, Indians, Creoles, pirates, and Blacks in a stunning defeat of a larger, better trained and equipped British army in the Battle of New Orleans, January 1815. The details of the units and their commanders, the tactics, the phases of the conflict are clearly told, the various movements and maneuvers leading up to the battle, as well as the aftermath--jubilation in New Orleans and the United States, homeward sail for the stunned British, astonishment in Europe. The real significance of this victory, however, lies in the blocking of the British intent to wrest the Louisiana Purchase territory from the US and to control the Mississippi River, linking New Orleans and Canada in British hands. This dimension of the War of 1812 is told more clearly in Charles Patton's "Chalmette" than in most accounts of the Battle of New Orleans. Well researched and clearly presented in brief compass.'
'The Battle of New Orleans in 1814?1815, the last battle of the War of 1812, forever ended any attempt by England to regain control of the American Colonies, lost during the American Revolution, the War of Independence. It was here that General Andrew Jackson, and local volunteers, including Jean Lafitte (the pirate) and his men, defended the city from the invading British. The British troops were under the command of General Pakenham, who died in the final battle, January 8, 1815. Today, one can walk the ramparts, the recreated defenses extending from the Rodriguez Canal at the Mississippi River to what was then the tree line of the cypress swamp, at the northern end of the battlefield.'
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this was fought 6 miles from where my family has lived since before 1810.
all the streets where I grew up, were named after people in this war, including my family name among streets in new Orleans.
