The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory

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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory. By Robert V. Remini. New York: Viking, 1999. ISBN 0-670-- 88551-7. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xi, 226. $24.95.

General Andrew Jackson's victory over the British at New Orleans on 8 January 1815 was one of the most important battles of the War of 1812 and arguably a watershed event in U.S. history. No other military engagement in the years between George Washington's victory at Yorktown and the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter did more to intensify American patriotism or ensure independence. The battle-"one of the great turning points in American history" (p. 195--solidified the country, and in the process defined America's.