Military

The Battle of New Orleans

 was fought on January 8, 1815 between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham 
and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson.

Free Men of Colour and Choctaw Indian Volunteers at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1814
[Public Domain, via Wikipedia Commons]

Websites

• Gipson, Jennifer. “Afro-Creoles in the Battle of New Orleans,” french.centenary.edu.
• The Battle of New Orleans - PBS
• Cho, Nancy. “Savary, Joseph (? — 1800's),” Blackpast.org
• Foner, Laura. “The Free People of Color in Louisiana and St. Domingue: A Comparative Portrait of Two Three-Caste Slave Societies,” Journal of Social History, Vol. 3, No. 4, Summer, 1970, pp. 406-430. [No Link]
• Haitian Immigration: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Sutherland, Jonathan. 2004. African Americans at War 1. 1.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
• Fox, Justin. “Who Won the Battle of New Orleans?” Time Magazine, [Economy &  Policy] Oct 21, 2009.  
• "Soldiers, Rebels, and Pirates" Haitian Immigration: 18th and 19th Centuries in Motion, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• The Battle of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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