The Battle of New Orleans (Louisiana): Major General Andrew Jackson, commanding the Seventh Military District of the Army of the united States, defeats the North American Army of the United Kingdom, commanded by Major General Edward Pakenham.
NOTE: Although the peace treaty ending the war had already been signed, a British victory might have meant a resumption of the war.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 76.
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