Commanded by Andrew Jackson, American soldiers batter a larger British force at the Battle of New Orleans in the last major conflict of the War of 1812. Incidentally, the battle was fought two weeks after both sides signed the Treaty of Ghent, officially ending the war, but news did not cross the Atlantic for several months.
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