Thursday, November 28, 2013


Royal Navy white ensign
November 28, 1814

New Orleans – British spy Harold Lowe sends a note to his brother, Fleet Captain Godfrey Lowe on the staff of Admiral Cochrane’s flag ship, HMS Tonnant with the disposition of US forces, in particularly around Lake Borgne east of the city and the narrows into Lake Pontchartrain above the city. The Americans have five gunboats, a tender and a small dispatch boat on Lake Borgne and Fort Petite Coquilles that commands the Rigolets has eleven cannons, 24-pounders. There are no defenses at the Chef Menteur Pass nearer the city.

Rodriguez Plantation РThe Rodriguez family starts moving from their blue plantation house to the larger Macart̩ house, now part of their plantation.

from BATTLE KISS, Part 1, “The Redcoats are Coming” www.oneildenoux.net

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