The Battle of New Orleans by Robert V Remini

The Battle of New Orleans by Robert V Remini

This book addresses a pivotal and overlooked moment in American history. In 1815, Britain's crack troops, fresh from victories against Napoleon, were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen soldiers under the fledgling commander Andrew Jackson, whom they dubbed Old Hickory. It was this battle that first defined the United States as a military power to be reckoned with and an independent democracy here to stay. The Battle of New Orleans sets its scenes with an almost unbelievably colorful cast of characters--a happenstance coalition of militiamen, regulars, untrained frontiersmen, free blacks, Indians, townspeople, and of course, Jackson himself. His glorious, improbable victory will catapult a once-poor, uneducated orphan boy into the White House and forge the beginning of a true nation.

For more than half a century, Robert V.Remini, historian of the United States House of Representatives, has been teaching and writing on American history. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Life of Andrew Jackson, a three-volume biography that won the National Book Award in 1984. Biographies of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, and Joseph Smith are among his other works. The Western Writers of America awarded his Andrew Jackson and His Indian Warfare the Spur Award for best western nonfiction. He currently resides in Wilmette, Illinois.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780141001791
ISBN 10	0141001798
Title	The Battle of New Orleans
Author	Robert V Remini
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	2001-05-01
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.