The Battle of New Orleans—good and bad. At New Orleans on January 8th, 1815, some 4700 Americans (led by General Andrew Jackson) took on more than...
A Fight for Ages
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The Louisiana Purchase And The Adams-Onis Treaty In 1818 General Andrew Jackson and a force of Tennessee militia, ignored the boundary between the U.S. and Spanish territories....
The critical issue regarding the port at New Orleans between the U.S. and Spain would not be resolved until Spain yielded the Yazoo Strip, north of...
When Did The Civil War Really Begin? “He who controls the mouth of the Mississippi River controls the West.”
In 1784, Spain, looking from her outposts in Louisiana and Florida, watched America’s growing western frontier with a menacing eye and made a...