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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
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