Are you familiar with the background of the famous historical Battle of New Orleans? The battle, fought Jan. 8, 1815, ended a five-month British campaign in the Gulf region. It was the war’s largest and bloodiest confrontation, and the final military conflict between Great Britain and the United States. Andrew Jackson’s makeshift fighters of militia, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians, and pirates were no match for a British army superior in number and weapons. Britain had defeated Napoloeon earlier in 1814 and launched three avenues of attack against the colonies, the Battle of Baltimore, the Battle of Plattsburgh, and this Battle of New Orleans. A victory for the British Empire here would…