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The Battle of New Orleans

Robert Vincent Remini

出版	Viking, 1999
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of StateHistory / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / Wars & Conflicts / War of 1812History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN	06708855179780670885510
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=D_J2AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"The Battle of New Orleans sets its scenes with an almost unbelievably colorful cast of characters, starting with the happenstance coalition of militiamen, regulars, untrained frontiersmen, free blacks, Indians, and townspeople. Swashbuckling privateer Jean Laffite talks his way out of possible imprisonment to lead the Barataria pirates into arms for the United States. The proud, reckless British general Pakenham - certain that it will be only a matter of days before America is reduced once more to colonial status - finds himself forced to ferry his miserable troops across a Louisiana lake in a Gulf storm, and then discovers to his gentlemanly dismay that agile Choctaw and Tennessee "dirty shirt" sharpshooters make a sport of picking off his sentries by night. The city's Creoles, somewhat suspicious of the enterprise and only recently American citizens, after all, draw the line at blacking out their street lamps.