Letter

Dear Major-General Andrew Jackson,

During the battle of New Orleans You showed you bravery because even though the odds were against you, you still stood your ground until the night over the bombardment stopped and you will definitely be remembered for it.

You stayed in that fort until the British came to land and tried to fight when you destroyed them with your artillery which also killed their general, General Edward Pakenham.

The trenches and other placement of your defense was brilliant, and even as the terrifying rockets and destructive cannonballs rained down from the heavens as you defended the fort of New Orleans.

This was the most famous battle of 1812 so much so that a man named Francis Scott Keys even wrote a Poem about it called the Battle of New Orleans but the name was changed to the star spangled banner.


(information courtesy of http://war1812.tripod.com/batorleans.html)
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