The Battle of New Orleans Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory |
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| Author:
| Remini, Robert Vincent |
| Narrated by:
| Todd, Raymond |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4332-7242-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Downloadable audio file |
| List Price: | USD $31.96 |
Book Description:
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This book addresses a pivotal and overlooked moment in American history. In 1815, Britain s crack troops, fresh from victories against Napoleon, were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen soldiers under the fledgling commander Andrew Jackson, whom they dubbed Old Hickory. It was this battle that first defined the United States as a military power to be reckoned with and an independent democracy here to stay.
The Battle of New Orleans sets its scenes with an...
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This book addresses a pivotal and overlooked moment in American history. In 1815, Britain s crack troops, fresh from victories against Napoleon, were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen soldiers under the fledgling commander Andrew Jackson, whom they dubbed Old Hickory. It was this battle that first defined the United States as a military power to be reckoned with and an independent democracy here to stay.
The Battle of New Orleans sets its scenes with an almost unbelievably colorful cast of characters a happenstance coalition of militia-men, regulars, untrained frontiersmen, free blacks, Indians, townspeople, and of course, Jackson himself. His glorious, improbable victory will catapult a once-poor, uneducated orphan boy into the White House and forge the beginning of a true nation.