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Originally Posted by steeljack
"The Battle of New Orleans " was during the war of 1812 not the War of Independance (4th July ),which was fifty years earlier , the Brits got whupped again and chased back to Canada
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At that time the Brits were fighting the
real war in Europe against the French under Napoleon. The war you speak of was just a kick about to give our boys in the Colonies something to do!