In the battle the British lost several thousand of their crack troops, including their commanding officer, General Edward Pakenham. And it made a national hero out of Andrew Jackson.Ĭommanding a ragtag army of backwoods sharpshooters, free men of color, swashbuckling buccaneers and other non-professional soldiers, many of whom volunteered at the last minute, the victorious Jackson went on to become the seventh president of the United States and one of the greatest chief executives in American history. Had that happened, it would have given England greater leverage in negotiating the still-evolving peace terms of the Treaty of Ghent.
It also kept the British from capturing New Orleans. For one, it gave a much-needed boost to sagging American morale at the end of one of the most disastrous wars in American history. The Battle of New Orleans, which actually occurred nearly two weeks after the treaty was signed that ended the War of 1812, was significant in a number of ways.
The last land battle ever fought on American soil between the United States and a foreign enemy took place on Januin Chalmette just outside of New Orleans on a site now known as The Chalmette Battlefield.
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