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We explore Andrew Jackson's path to New Orleans: His origins. The Creek War. Pensacola. And we see how he set up the American victory at New Orleans—before he even arrived.
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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
"'Remember Fort Mims:' Reinterpreting the Origins of the Creek War" by Karl Davis
"'A Slow, Laborious Slaughter': The Battle of Horseshoe Bend" by Thomas Kanon
"British Command Decisions Relative to the Battle of New Orleans" by John K. Mahon
"Red Stick War, 1813–1814" in Massacring Indians: From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee by Roger L. Nichols
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