Show P 0 u RIS B 34 X j old absinthe house New Orleans quarters 01 the L aritte a the Bara pirates Il rutes lett left to right jean lafitte Ln fitle pierre lafitte Lafit tc Doun you from i in th ahr louisiana st l M museum by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 8 Is tile lie city on which amerl CHUB caria pay honor to tire memory ut of andrew aadrew jackson and it Is eminently ot fit ung that they should for it Is the anniversary of hie file battle ot of new orleans fought on In nunry 8 1815 1 one tit t hie file must victories in tire the 11 lils lory story ol of Anier Am erluin letin arms amis tills in byte brief wits old Ilic Hl kurys korys achievement with n fore force at ot less than whom almut about 2210 were actively engaged in tile battle he opposed opp sed a force ot of nearly british ot of whom more than were engaged and utterly defeated them killing 10 wounding 1411 find and taking AIN prisoners with a loss of tits men of exactly eight killed and 13 wounded I 1 A while too much credit cannot be given ghen to old hickory and his frontiersmen for or their achievements there were athers others whose share in that flint vie jorj bory should nut not no gi unnoticed it tb Is ai ot tills this lart kotce lele to add these little known facts to the fa story of tills this tr attle for instance trinny tinny Anier luins have only a vague idea of the pirt played in hint flint by jean As a matter ot of fiut there were two La labilles filles jenn jean and Il ilerd erre who were gentlemen smugglers and privateers under tile the flag of Coloni liln na well nis as that of other are commonly referred to as pirates although differ us nf to tn hie file justness of it that fot the d viding line between arl vate prIng and piracy in those hinse days wits was a 0 thin one tit at best the two brothers find and theft lieuten tints among the must inns prominent of whom were donil bigue you enil Iteli had a fortified stronghold not far ne new orleans rind find their operations front that hase soon sion bro tight thein into conflict with the lie united strafes rind l Loul sinna inte IQ in 1814 alerre anntte was a prisoner in new rind pan was ns tin nn outlaw with a price of nii tits his trend yet vet when the british on their way to the attrick eon n new orleans sent sant lockyer liK kyer as nn an to lolline offering him film lands a captaincy in the navy and a rein reward rd ot of vue W oaf if 1 tie fie would hid aid thein in the l delayed lilii giving lI nii till nn and sent ant word if if file offet lip lie imd had received rp elved to john 11 hinque it meni fier of the Loti Warin legislature lei rhe arrival of ills liessi tiger caused nii pd a sensation tot foi it Is stiff flint tills till wils tan the fart of the eneany 9 pres inep find plaits new orleans later lean I 1 wrote n istler to governor claiborne pointing out nn tit hip I 1 rice of hla his stronghold rind to defend it flip lip the evid evidente enre as to what followed Is contrad letory hut hill it seems that lolitte notified tile the that tie would nor no join hirm inart chiji ile hp definitely rust east his lot with till at nav rote when the british slanted toward new orlenn tin nn HIP flip marn ing 0 it 9 ohp were much mini in evidence it Is ald that hinl himself did not partle irate flinte in the hie ti nille being RS ns tie he lind find to to to guard tile the entrance enhance to rome of nf his hl however warp sent dpn to bayou st pt john to ft ff ilke while otter were in lie flip thirk tit ot hip flip itself two of it these you vim aind Ro titi luelie idie grinned one of flip alir ilni ed pil batteries tills was buttery no 3 rind so n q did ald they operate it that flint general Is I 1 sidd hv by one to have dt barild ahm with two tn murp elin like it and nien tn it amin them tic he would not it id tie flip entea of n bell tile general nold giving his clr warm ap alloin of the monner in which these gentle men meb have willor nili bert hes while unde tits i command hal the with which hah they red ined the hip pledge HIP flip gove tit ni the open pen ing of n the ii to defend the flip roti the rhe brothers I 1 WHIP illi laif tile hip anina bourage and ddelli find HIP getic rid prim ilses the government tip tie atil of 0 their con duct om ni cilc wip tn in them more alore than hint flint Litt itte helped in a wity which Is couched vouched vinn tied tin for h no nd less a fierson than an anfrew drew Juck torr humph jiin ot il HIP flip ordnance with which the ot of new orlain Orl pin wits wn won varne from froin hii mf is 1111 filles was in known nil v ted nl 1 I pistol nants flints which were put till hit tile tol litho li hout chic cl the eilif hilp hilen useless tills lid nion ined from the fhe olif in rim nir ahme anve heen been io irl 1 rul indio m in vomer biting upon this service it iq 1 a 11 tot afi tr cr trout feidi hu lavinis lii is battleground fit at nei ne arli fr li m to n lite hit Imil lil old lil tun of f e town 1 H r C tint but iii nt n t ti hren en fur for lite pair lotic ol of iwo awn kii in ial hm town life victory jackson ad the dam tile of new arica might not have been won at the time jackson wits preparing to move ills his army to the defense of new orleans the united states treasury was withof funds and what was worse worm the impoverished government which was prosecuting an unpopular war found that it had find no credit with ft ath the leading banking institutions to in tills this emergency lai lame neit annnie then secretary of state under president madison mounted his horse and rode to georgetown tie there lie he called upon the cashier of tile the bank of Volum columbia bla and to him pledged his honor and his personal fortune to the repa vinent of a loan it if he would ninke make it to the government the cailler promptly ninde made the lonn jackson wits as supplied with the much needed funds and was MUS able to go on to the splendid victory which awaited him at new orleans low how many americans have we ever heard the name capt cap shamuel I 1 hester chester held let in connection with the battle of new orleans yet if it had not been for him and his IH 00 men and for the fhe stubborn fight which they in a little merchant brig earning carrying on onh seven guns put against three british warships earning carrying IW guns and 2010 men in the azores jackon might not have won tits his great victory in 1814 lie he was ns in conini command and of tile the general arm strong a converted convened merchant brig bilg which hit had put into tile lie neutral port of florin in the alie azores for provisions find and for which tits his ship had suffered in it a tropical hurricane lie was followed there ti a british squadron of three well armed vessels ess Is the ship of tile the line 74 guns the lie ilota it a frigate 13 38 runs guns and the car or nation a brig IS 18 guns uns commanded by admiral cochran who disregarded the fait fact that tills this was a neutral port pirt rind and minced ills ships so as to block the exit of the Arner ienn vessel iteld had observed the proper upon entering the port but lie he soon realized reali sed that lie wits was not to he be allowed to depart from it unmolested neutral port or not so battle groo grog was served to all hands the deck cleared for action and officers rind and men remained at their stations throughout the nuit night of 0 september 20 ray day brought a 11 demand tor for surrender nender su which tile the american curtly refused held tell signaled sign lied that lie he would mould insist upon tits his rights its as h a neutral the enemy honored tills this soon the writer water swarmed ined boals from the E ti glish craft converging upon the general armstrong from all directions captain iteld warning that lie he would hie fire was n ns rol fillie loveI cl b tit action tind find the put haik back with minor ingnor losses brought the crisis simultaneously froin hie file three english warships twelve large bouts boats put out these mounted guns and carro nudes and were manned with well armed vet erans erana tile americans were fairly well seasoned but their il gilling gear was not of the het hest cap tain field inifred from klin gun to t gun gull cheering the canno eanno and personally directing the shots three ot of the british boats were sunk with alth heavy losses hut but tile guns ot of the lie armstrong coul 1 not he be served fast enough to account for tuorn besides the enemy were all approaching from the flip bame dl redlon a fact which rendered useless two tuis guas on the port side ot of the brig all ut at once if a store score of 0 grappling hook 4 were thrust through the ports and over the rails of the Viene benero ripi armstrong then the british swarmed up aram d alth ith pistols and cutlasses cutlass cut lasses ea 0 o terl shouted tire lnell sh officers a and nd tile the anglish sailors took up tip tile the cry tire defenders of the cimeral ral armstrong fully realized their plight nitch knew that he was nt at hay bay and hat tied fell for tits his life rink litick from the guns they sprang until they stood foot to root foot at uie the center of the ship flip here was their one advantage long pikes awaited ahelf grasp as soon as they hid had emptied belr fil pistols seizing these heavy lances lames they thrust at the hoarder boarders whose very nan numbers ibers impeded their progress but after they were massed so closely they find no room to swing seln their cut lasses they ral eil them over their bends and thou ihl til them down don with great abashing strokes ahert they tried a ruse one ninn man seizing seeing it a pike while his follow ti sought to fill cut din dawn file lie wielder of the weapon SPY spit eral era tit nf the fell although all hough the discipline of nf the defenders was an slowly then tut but piety tire the pikes pressed for or capt S samuel abue Chester hester Reid ward shouted orders were lust lost to la the but men taught caught the idea and the whole body surged toward the rails the british were ivere thrust bodily into the sen sea the ropes that held the gnip grappling pling hooks honks were severed onri and the bonts tilled filled with wounded retreated the engagement had lasted forty minutes it wits a terrible night which the men on the general armstrong spent for two nights they had bad pad no sleep find and the decks looked like a shambles shani tiles even though tile the amerlean american loss wn was small at any moment tire B might alight attoh again and the odds against them seemed lied over wh whelmine whelming elming however the enemy decided to post pnat pone further action until morning the porto guese authorities had sent word to the that hostilities in tile hie harbor must cease hut bill captein lloyd I 1 lovd second in command to admiral cochran declared that flint he would en capture liture the flip american ship and kill its officers and crew it if he lind had to knoel knock down the whole town to tin do it captain reid did not have hae to wait long lone for the final attack the hills armind the lint hor reier raver berated to such a as they find nev er known before the Ainer american lentis rave gave hn anik k a little more than one shot for every twenty masts mast and rigging were stint shot anav and the flip upper tipper hull of the general armstrong was pierced repeatedly but the american stints shots must have been aptt j aimed for the Carna carnation tinn which was in the alie van of the assailants was ft as SQ act badly slie she had to withdraw captain iteld held was a lighting fighting man as well as tin an of liver and to hit hi per personal sonnI skill were ascribed the shots flint crippled the carnation with ith three half nude gunners his uniform so grinned as n to be scarcely he served the great long tom which wits the heaviest piece tile HIP general armstrong mounted As flip carnation withdrew the fire of the lie other two ships slack ene eneil dand and ilerd turned to ills his first mate lower the boats aarl he ordered then he be hade the crew of the he long tom to stand nt at posts and ordered up tip a dwen dozen other men wonderingly they strained at tove tackle blinks its as hp he directed them to haul datil in the gun and its muzzle so as to fire through the file Arin Arni strongs stron hull bull tills this accomplished I 1 shed he went vent to his quartered li it and while an occasional british shot still save ann by coolly the debarkation of mor moi of tits his crey crew authorities differ as to the final scene on tile ship but bill it Is said flint captain llpyd returned to tile the 1 I ons tom and personally fired the stint that crushed crashed through the vitals of ills his ship and let in the water wafer it Is certain that hint lie he was ns the liast man over her side the Arni armstrong strong settled ni as his men pulled for shore the enemy sent a party to fire the brig hut bill this wits wai merely a gerture irps turp determination not to surrender was tire fixed awl idea that ruled captain held field in tills this tile weakness of the portuguese garrison and the va cil dilating lating conduit conduct of the governor must bave con vinced him that tie had little to hope from apu aral protection so he be pinn l his fifish to t hp ga pil I 1 lant band of fighting men who by now idolized him not 0 o far fro from m the castle was a cament built of 0 massive blocks block of stone held sighted tills ua its thi the boatmen tinen rowed him ashore with little fortio illo lie he led tits his nien men into the convent up ran the amer lean flog flag and ahoe above the heavily harreil ente cate wai lung the figurehead tit nl ills his ship lie ile dared tb ill to come and let him hill it must he said aalde it 11 their credit that they would anve been to try hut but their helf officers to 01 it cou counsel and appod antly decided they had gone the limit in disep garding international rules rule ot of warfare beald when they cuttle cume to take toll loll ot of their losses tapi hp found all three of their ships infringed to sui i an extent that flint they the had find to return to their for repairs irs the british squadron had and been part tit ot t lie pape gathering lit at to salze new orleans it if the general armstrong had been captured it hi vessel would have haie been ninde made tin an ati vIllary of 0 tit hi priggish glish leet fleet exploit niora morp lhnn kiy oth nten one factor preen prevented ted the HIP earlier of nt ent ich reinforcements alad they in flip the result of the battle of new orleana anig have been vitally front froni rat it wa wan JQ 13 b wi pitr tr Nw ocer gm |