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On This Day: US Forces Defeat the British at the Battle of New Orleans

January 08, 2009 06:00 AM
by findingDulcinea Staff
On Jan. 8, 1815, Gen. Andrew Jackson led American troops to victory in the last major conflict of the War of 1812, two weeks after both nations had signed a peace treaty. Jackson’s military success would later propel him to the presidency.
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