Battle of New Orleans.

Monday, September 1, 2014

Big Month for the Americans

I would kind of consider this a key turning point of the war for the United States, especially after the sacking and burning of Washington, D.C. a short time earlier.

The British were stopped at Baltimore by Fort McHenry and then, of course, Francis Scott Key wrote that poem which became a big song for the country.

The British were also stopped at Mobile, Alabama and the Battle of Plattsburgh/Lake Champlain.

These setbacks were paramount to the British deciding to stop the war at Ghent, Belgium.

--Brock-Perry

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