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1814 |
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| North America:Andrew Jackson is defending the soft underbelly of North America. General Winfield Scott is wounded but claims victory at Lundy's Lane. British burn Washington and bombard Fort McHenry. The executive mansion is painted white to hide scorch marks | |||||||||||
| Europe: On December 24 the Treaty of Ghent is signed ending hostilities between Britain and the U. S. Word does not reach troops in time to prevent the Battle of New Orleans. Napoleon begins the year with victories, but in March the tide turns and Paris falls at the beginning of April. He retires to Elba with his title intact and a two million franc a year stipend. Louis XVIII becomes king and FerdinandVII is restored in Spain. First steam locomotive.First food sold in cans. Holland abandons the slave trade. The Treaty of Ghent includes an agreement between the U. S. and Britain to stop the slave trade, but new ships built in America can out run British men-o-war, allowing the trade to continue. Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Jane Austin, Wordsworth, Francisco Goya, Beethoven, Rossini |
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The historian Gayarre, only nine years old, watches as the motley army of General Jackson marches off to battle in late December from his aunt’s balcony and later writes of hearing the battle from the same home on Royal Street. Diplomats at the Treaty of Ghent include Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, Henry Clay and leader John Quincy Adams. Word of its signing does not reach the New Orleans area until after the battle in Chalmette. |
| 1814 The first informal race course in the area is laid out on the nearby plantation of General Wade Hampton. | A British officer anchors his brig in Barataria Pass and comes ashore with a flag of truce. He offers Jean Lafitte, as the commandant of Barataria, lands, property and personal protection. He is met with hostility and Lafitte asks for time to consider. Lafitte wrote to Governor William C. C. Claiborne and offered his services. | The plantation of Pierre Lacoste is seized by a British force in December. U.S. forces under General John Coffee route British in a counterattack. The Lacoste Plantation becomes Villere property in 1856 |
Samuel Flower |
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