Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The...

Author: Brian Kilmeade Don Yaeger
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ISBN: 9780735213241

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Now in paperback with a new afterword.... Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washing...
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Now in paperback with a new afterword.... Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison’s generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing battles in Canada. Then British troops set the White House ablaze, and a feeling of hopelessness spread across the country.Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson, who feared that President Madison’s men were overlooking the most important target of all: New Orleans. If the British conquered New Orleans, they would control the mouth of the Mississippi River, cutting Americans off from that essential trade route. The new nation’s dreams of western expansion would be crushed before they really got off the

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