tailieunhanh - The Battle of New Orleans

England was apparently more liberal than Spain or France when, in the treaty of 1783, she agreed to the Mississippi River as the western boundary of the United States. Spain was for limiting the territory of the new republic on the west to the crest of the Alleghany Mountains, so as to secure to her the opportunity of conquering from England the territory between the mountains and the Great River. Strangely enough and inconsistently enough, France supported Spain in this outrageous effort to curtail the territory of the new republic after she had helped the United States to conquer it from England, or rather after. | The Battle of New Orleans by Zachary F. Smith 1 The Battle of New Orleans by Zachary F. Smith The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Battle of New Orleans by Zachary F. Smith This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8 th of January 1815 Author Zachary F. Smith Release Date June 5 2008 EBook 25699 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS Produced by Irma Spehar Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. Illustration . SMITH. Member of the Filson Club The Battle of New Orleans by Zachary F. Smith 2 FILSON CLUB PUBLICATIONS No. 19 THE Battle of New Orleans INCLUDING THE Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8 th of January 1815 BY ZACHARY F. SMITH Member of The Filson Club and Author of a History of Kentucky and School Editions of the same Illustrated LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY JOHN P. MORTON COMPANY PRINTERS TO THE FILSON CLUB 1904 COPYRIGHTED BY The Filson Club and All Rights Reserved 1904 PREFACE In the preparation of the following account of the Battle of New Orleans I have availed myself of all accessible authorities and have been placed under obligations to Colonel . Durrett of Louisville Kentucky. I have had free access to his library which is the largest private collection in this country and embraces works upon almost every subject. Besides general histories of the United States and of the .