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Battle of New Orleans
January 8, 1815
Chalmette, Louisiana
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Jackson's mixed force of regulars, Choctaw, free Black militia, Kentuckians and Lafitte's pirates broke a British assault in half an hour, around 2,000 British casualties to about 70. The peace treaty had been signed two weeks earlier. Nobody in Louisiana knew.
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