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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1st Edition) by Robert Vincent Remini Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-14-100179-8 / 0141001798 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-100179-1 / 9780141001791 The United States and Britain had already negotiated an end to the War of 1812 when their troops met on the Plains of Chalmette near New Orleans in 1815. Word of the peace had not yet reached that far west, so a group of professional British soldiers clashed with a rag-tag band of about 4,000 "front |