By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ANUARY 8 is a date Imperishably pre- served In the annals of America in association with the name of Andrew 9 Jackson, ‘or It was on January 8, 1g victory e of New 1815, that he won his. am é over the Orleans. Few, if any, victories in history were more complete, more the defeated or more contrary to military experience. In the first place, the victors were outnun bered nearly two to one by the vanquished, what was more important was the fact that, in contrast to Jackson's nondescript ar of a few regulars and a ma} disciplined militia and volunteers, the British army was composed of “trained and toughened troops, the divisions which had scattered the Americans at Bladensburg with a volley and a shout, kilted Highlanders, famous regiments which had earned the praise of Wellington, the ‘Iron Duke,’ in the Spanish Peninsula, and brawny negro detach- ments recruited in the West Indies. Tt was such an army as would have been considered fit to withstand the fine in Furope In com- mand was one of Engla: ost brilliant sol- dlers. Gen. Sir Edward a ham, of whom Wellington had said ‘My par im does not lead me astray when [I tell you that he is one of the best we have! He was the idol of his officers, who agreed that they had never served under a man whose good opinion they were so desirous of having, ‘and to fall in his estimation would have been worse than death'” So, by all the accepted rules of warfare as It was waged In those times, it was the British who should have won at New Orleans Instead of the Americans. The only trouble with that theory is that the Americans were led by “a great general with the rare attribute of reading correctly the mind of an opponent and divining his course of action, endowed with an unyleld- ing temper and an iron a relentless pur- pose, and the faculty of ing piring troops to follow, obey, and trust him In the last extremit He was one of them, typifying their passions and prejudices, their faults and thelr virtues, sharing their hardships as if he were a common private, never grudging them the eredit In suc- cess.” (Note: The foregoing quotations gre from Ralph D. Palne’'s “The Fight for a Free Sea” in the Yale University Press “Chronicles of America”). 80 when “Old Hickory” Jackson told his Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen, his Loulsi. ana volunteers, his Yankee sailors, his “Bara- taria pirates” led by Jean Lafitte and all the other heterogeneous elements in his army, that they could “lick their weight In wildeats™ It mever occurred to them but that they could also Hek their weight in British regulars as well So that dia it! As for a description of the battle itself, what could be better than one given by the victorious general on that famous field? So here Is the story of the Battle of New Orleans as Jackson himself reported it to James Monroe, then gecre- tary of war: “The battle commenced at a very little before Y a. m, January 8, 1815, and as far as the in- fantry was concerned It was over by 9a. m. My force was very much mixed. I had portions of the Seventh and Forty-fourth regular Infantry regiments, Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen, ereoles, United States marihes and sallors, Bara- tarian men—one of them, Capt, Dominique You, eommanded part of my artillery (and a famous gunner he was), and two battallons of free negroes. I had In the action about 6,000 men. The British strength was almost the same as mine, but vastly superior In drill and discipline, Of their force my riflemen killed and wounded 2.117 in less than an hour, including two gen eral officers (both died on the field, eich a division commander), seven full colonels, with 75 line and staff officers. I lost six killed and seven wounded, “As to tactics, there were very little In use on either side. We had some works of earth fronting the river, but the Kentucky and Tennessee rifle men, who sustained the main attack, had pro- tected themselves by a work about two and a half feet high, made of logs placed two feet apart, and the space between filled in with earth. This work began at the Mississippl river, and ended in the swamp, being at a right angle with the river, “Thinking this the weakest portion of our line, and seeing ununiformed men behind the trifling defenses, General Pakenham thought it the best thing to begin his attack by carrying this part of my line with the bayonet, “There was a very heavy fog on the river that morning, and the British had formed and were moving before I knew it. The disposition of the piflemen was very simple. They were told oft g ( Jatkaay ths Brtit, flicer .o1r E. Pankenham in numbers one and two, Number one was to fire first, then step back and let fire while he reloaded. About G00 yar the riflemen there was a great dralpage of running back from the Mississipnpl river to the swamp In the rear of the tilled land on which we were operating. Along this canal the British formed, under the fire of the few artillery pieces I has near enough to them to get their r But the insta saw them I sald to Coffee, whom I directed } to be first oy + i 13 HES anies front, soved on at a q hin 100 yards who were hol goe the belt buc ish advan f the yaugh they had been on par ade. They marche shoulder to shoplder, with the step of veterans, as they were. At 100 yards distance from our line the order was given, ‘Extend column front ‘Double quick, march! Charge!” With bayonet the charge, they came on us at a run, ef WIS eX it was an anxious moment; I well kn the che g column was made up of the picked troops of the British army. forty yards, were they from the silest ling riflemen. All of my men [ could see was their long rifles rested on the logs before them. They obeyed their orders well; not a ghot was fired until the redcoats were within forty yards. I heard Coffee's voice as he roared out; ‘Now, men, alm for the center of the cross-belts! Fire! A second after the order a crackling, blazing flash rang all along our line. The smoke hung so heavily in the misty morning air that I could not see what happened, 1 called Tom Overton and Abner Duncan of my staff, and we galloped toward Coffee's line. “The British were falling back in a confused, disorderly mass, and the entire first ranks of their column were blown away, For 200 yards fn our front the ground was covered with a mass of writhing wounded, dead and dying redcoats. The second advance was precisely like the first In its ending. In five volleys the 1500 or more riflemen killed and wounded 2,117 British soldiers, two-thirds of them killed dead or mortally wounded. “1 did not know where General Pakenham was lying, or I should have sent to him, or gone in person, to offer any service In my power to render. “1 was told he lived two hours after he was hit. General Keene, 1 hear, was killed dead. “They sent a flag to me asking leave to gather up their wounded and bury their dead, which, of course, 1 granted. I was told by a wounded offi cer that the rank and file absolutely refused to make a third charge, “We have no chance with such shooting as these Americans do,’ they sald.” One of the factors which makes the Battle of New Orleans unique is the fact that it was fought after the treaty of peace had been signed-—per- haps the only time in history when two bel lgerents fought a major military engagement when officially they were at peace. That fact is known to most Americans, but many probably say of the Battle of New Orleans “Oh, yes, it was a pleturesque affair and an astonishing vie- tory, but since it was won after the war was over it was really not very important.” Therein they are wrong. Quite aside from the fact that it had something to do with sending Andrew Jackson to the White House 14 years later, its results and its effects on the later his. tory of this country were far-reaching. Jackson himself at the time of his victory could not pos- ibly have realized what those results were to De, any more than he could have known that he was fighting a battle with the British when we were at peace with them. But later he realized the full significence of his victory as his own words show, Those words were spoken while he was Presi. dent. Arkansas, the second of the 13 states to be made in whole or In part from the Louisiana Purchase, had just been admitted to the Union. Seventy, sixty, fifty, One day in 18306 one of the callers at the White House was Willlam Allen, a congressman from Ohio, Jackson snd Allen were discussing the admission of Arkansas, Their conversation is reported In Allen's writings as follows: “Do you know, Mr. Allen, that this new state which has just become a part of our vast Repub- lic Is one of the first substantially large frulis of my victory at New Orleans?’ asked the Presi- dent, Allen was surprised and remarking that the Treaty of Ghent was ined 15 days be fore the battle was fought ling: “General 1 em famiils provided for the re the war. + GRYE ni I by treaty. If Gene veterans could have an and ca red New 6ous : Britain wonld that treaty son's great upward o thelr $udzment wee 10060 Diritisgh soldiers up and wipe out a muster, for the | triumphant military “Now, I can tell you, 3 know, and my boys bel know, what a prize the what a service we we We were simply typic al American soldiers, fig ing for our country as American soldiers always do: ready and willing to dare, do and die, “But since 1 have heen President l have ascer- tained from diplomatic sources of unquestionable authority that the British ministry did not Intend to permit the treaty of Ghent to apply te the Iouisiana Purchase at all. The whole body, Lord Liverpool, the Duke of Portland, Greenville, Percival and Castlereagh, all of them, utterly and emphatically denied the right of Napoleon to sell Louisiana. Therefore, thelr commission. ers declared, ‘We cannot accept Napoleon's in- terpretations of international law in relation to any matter before us.’ “Now, you see, Mr. Allen,” said the proud old hero, “the British ministry In London held most vehemently that this country had no right to that immense territory—no right at all. They In- the terms of the treaty of Ghent. And, if Gen eral Pakenham had been successful at New Or. overwhelming force of veterans—If he had de. feated my little, thin line of riflemen, if he had killed or captured me, If he had won that battle as Great Britaln had ever reason to expect of him, he would have held his ground. Moreover he would have fortified his positions, and Great Britain would have sent other veterans enough to forever hold that great prize, the Lonisians Purchase, “But, my dear sir, British dinlomacy and Brit. ish military power combined knew nothing of my Tennessee and Kentucky riflemen. The will of the enemy was strong and intelligent: but the will of God was far above it all. Providence willed that this nation should live, grow, and be the cradle of the liberty of the world.” Then General Jackson quoted a well-known hymn: “God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform,” and concluded his narration: “The astute diplomats, the trained commis sloners of Great Britain, cheerfully found it casy to throw sand into the eyes of our honest com missioners at Ghent; but, Allen, they could not ward off the cold lend which my rough and ready riflemen sprinkled into the faces of their red conted veterans at New Orleans. All of the tan gled web that British diplomacy and English con ning could weave ahout our inexperienced com missioners was torn to pleces and soaked in blood In half an hour by the never-missing rifles of my squirrel-shooting ploncers of the moun tains as they carefully took their alm from be hind those invulneradte bales of cotton” (® by Western Newspaper Union.) Found the Natural Way Out | By DOROTHY DOUGLAS He WoW We Ye Ve Fe He We He We He Ae 2 3 He He He He He He He He He Be (@ by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) ({WNU Bervice.) ARY MARDEN nibbled her pene cil as persistently as the young lambs nibble the first succulent grass on the hillside In spring. Her story, the one she must get out before the end of the week, or have the wrath of the big editor down on her fair head, wae going along smoothly and excitingly and Mary had | great hopes for it, As a matter of fact, she hoped it { would prove one of her best. 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