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Glorious Victory:

Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans

ISBN-13: 9781421417035
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Donald R. Hickey
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Local release date: 14/07/2015
Format: Hardback 168 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]

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Whether or not the United States 'won' the war of 1812, two engagements that occurred toward the end of the conflict had an enormous influence on the development of American identity: the successful defenses of the cities of Baltimore and New Orleans. Both engagements bolstered national confidence and spoke to the élan of citizen soldiers and their militia officers. The Battle of New Orleansperhaps because it punctuated the war, lent itself to frontier mythology, and involved the larger-than-life figure of Andrew Jacksonbecame especially important in popular memory. InGlorious Victory, leading War of 1812 scholar Donald R. Hickey recounts the New Orleans campaign and Jacksons key role in the battle.Drawing on a lifetime of research, Hickey tells the story of Americas 'forgotten conflict.' He explains why the fragile young republic chose to challenge Great Britain, then a global power with a formidable navy. He also recounts the early campaigns of the warWilliam Hulls ignominious surrender at Detroit in 1812; Oliver H. Perrys remarkable victory on Lake Erie; and the demoralizing British raids in the Chesapeake that culminated in the burning of Washington. Tracing Jacksons emergence as a leader in Tennessee and his extraordinary success as a military commander in the field, Hickey finds in Jackson a bundle of contradictions: an enemy of privilege who belonged to Tennessees ruling elite, a slaveholder who welcomed free blacks into his army, an Indian-hater who adopted a native orphan, and a general who lectured his superiors and sometimes ignored their orders while simultaneously demanding unquestioning obedience from his men. Aimed at students and the general public,Glorious Victory will reward readers with a clear understanding of Andrew Jacksons role in the War of 1812 and his iconic place in the postwar era.

Preface
Prologue
1. Completing the Revolution
2. The Making of a Hero
3. The Creek War
4. The British on the Gulf Coast
5. A Glorious Victory
Epilogue
Notes
Suggested Further Reading
Index

""Donald R. Hickey, dubbed by one authority 'the dean of 1812 scholarship,' tells it all in this slim but lively, lucid, and entertaining account... As the hit song of 1959 goes, 'In 1814 we took a little trip, Along with Colonel [sic] Jackson down the mighty Mississipp'.' Anyone who wants to make that expedition should seek out Don Hickey as a tour guide.""

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