The significance cannot be understated. It ended European
ambitions in the US. Forever. It re-affirmed the American Revolution and put
the US on the world stage as a maritime power. It strengthened our manifest
destiny to rule our land from the Atlantic to the Pacific (which still took a
while), but the Battle of New Orleans solidified US control of the Mississippi
River. For many years, January 8th was a national holiday.
Many Catholics still believe the victory was a ‘miracle’,
that prayers to the city’s patron saint Our Lady of Prompt Succor drew heavenly
attention to the battlefield and guided cannonballs and bullets from General
Jackson’s rag tag army across the Chalmette sugarcane plantation to forever
stain it with the blood of the invaders.
POINT OF FACT – The Battle of New Orleans was the last time
British and Americans met as enemies on a battlefield.
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