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<span style='font-size: 14pt'><span style="color: #000099">The war Jamaicans probably don't want to remember....</span></span>
<span style="color: #660000">"The fighting in Louisiana was really a series of battles for New Orleans, lasting from December 1814 through January 1815. On the Chalmette battleground , just below the city, a diverse force of soldiers, sailors, and militia, including Indians and African Americans, defeated Britain's finest white and black troops drawn from Europe and the West Indies" (Louisiana State Museum)....
"Among the British forces were the First and Fifth West India Regiments, made up of about one thousand black soldiers from Jamaica, Barbados, and the Bahamas. Some of these units recruited and trained American slaves who escaped to British lines, attracted by the promise of freedom.
United States forces at the time of the Battle of New Orleans were much smaller--somewhere between 3,500 and 5,000. This detachment was composed of United States army troops; Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana militia; Baratarian pirates; Choctaw warriors; and free black soldiers" (Louisiana State Museum)....</span>
Louisiana State Museum. (n.d.). The Battle of New Orleans. Retrieved on March 3, 2008, from http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab6.htm
<span style="color: #660000">"The fighting in Louisiana was really a series of battles for New Orleans, lasting from December 1814 through January 1815. On the Chalmette battleground , just below the city, a diverse force of soldiers, sailors, and militia, including Indians and African Americans, defeated Britain's finest white and black troops drawn from Europe and the West Indies" (Louisiana State Museum)....
"Among the British forces were the First and Fifth West India Regiments, made up of about one thousand black soldiers from Jamaica, Barbados, and the Bahamas. Some of these units recruited and trained American slaves who escaped to British lines, attracted by the promise of freedom.
United States forces at the time of the Battle of New Orleans were much smaller--somewhere between 3,500 and 5,000. This detachment was composed of United States army troops; Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana militia; Baratarian pirates; Choctaw warriors; and free black soldiers" (Louisiana State Museum)....</span>
Louisiana State Museum. (n.d.). The Battle of New Orleans. Retrieved on March 3, 2008, from http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab6.htm
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