Pirate Alley, New Orleans @1976

November 12, 1814

New Orleans – As the British frigate HMS Statira cautiously sails across the Atlantic, carrying Gen. Pakenham and his staff for a rendezvous with his army assembling in Jamaica, the story of the American capture of Pensacola in Gérard’s French language New Orleans newspaper does electrify the city. Citizens are beginning to realize the war that has been raging in the north is suddenly very close and will get a lot closer.

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