From the www.battleofneworleans.org. site.
All events from 1814.
SEPTEMBER 3-- Captain Nicholas Lockyer of the HMS Sophia meets with pirate Jean Lafitte, hoping to enlist his aid in the British attack on New Orleans. Lafitte sends copies of their offer to the Americans.
SEPTEMBER 12-- British commander Robert Ross killed in the Chesapeake Bay area and General Pakenham takes over.
SEPTEMBER 13-- Despite warnings of impending British attack, Commodore Daniel Patterson leads an attack on Jean Lafitte's base at Grand Tere, seizing goods and ships and burned down the base. Lafitte escapes.
SEPTEMBER 16-- Failed British attack on Mobile.
SEPTEMBER 26-27-- Battle of Fayal in the Azores. The 74-gun ship-of-the-line HMS Plantagent and two other warships sailing for the Gulf of Mexico fight the U.S. brig General Armstrong, 7 guns, and are delayed for several days, giving time for General Jackson to prepare for the British upcoming attack.
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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