Today's installment concludes The Battle of New Orleans,our selection from Life of Andrew Jackson by James Parton published in 1860. If you have

At all hazards the western bank must be regained. All is lost if it be not.Continuing The Battle of New Orleans,our selection from Life of Andrew

How long a time, does the reader think, elapsed between the fire of the first American gun and the total rout of the attacking columns?Continuing The

“Now conceive my indignation, on looking round, to find that the two leading regiments had vanished as if the earth had opened and swallowed them

There was no re-forming under such a fire. Once checked, the column could not but break and retreat in confusion.Continuing The Battle of New

Soon after four, General Pakenham rode away from the bank of the river, saying to one of his aids, “I will wait my own plans no longer.”Continuing