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| Previous Hispanola: By 1815 some refugee families that escaped to France but cannot adapt to the cold climate move to Louisiana and keep their eyes on Saint-Domingue where former slaves still have tenuous control on the island.
Next South America & Caribbean:Spanish troops land in Venezuela and New Granada to end the revolution there. Bolivar escapes to Jamaica. |
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| North America:First state chartered railroad in New Jersey. New York decides to build an Erie Canal. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Napoleon leaves Elba and reigns again for 100 days ending in his defeat at Waterloo. He is taken as a prisoner of war to St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Switzerland and a Germanic confederation are established. British income tax ends. Walter Scott, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Schubert | |||||||||||
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January 1815
On January 8 the Battle of New Orleans pits a rugged, ill-equipped army of 5,000 against the pride of the British Army numbering 10,000. The battle of raged on lands of Ignace de Lino De Chalmette, Antoine Bienvenu and Denis de la Ronde. British camps on lands of Jacques Philippe Villere and Pierre Lacoste; hospital on Jumonville de Villiers. Jackson Defense Line on the Edmond Macarty place. |
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| 1815 On the Jourdan Plantation in Algiers American forces under General David B. Morgan defend the West Bank of the river against British forces. | Joseph Savary, a free man of color, is given a field commission for his marksmanship in killing Edward Packenham, the British commanding general. | Dr. David C. Ker was a British army surgeon who allowed himself to be captured to attend to the wounded. He remained in New Orleans, won the city’s admiration and in 1827 was appointed a visiting physician at Charity Hospital. | Dr. Christian Miltenberger is a surgeon during the battle of New Orleans for the contingent under Maj. Plauche. Judah Touro, who is wounded in the battle will live to become one of New Orlean’s best known philanthropists. |
James Bowie lives in Opelousas with his family from 1815 to 1824. The Bowies operated several sawmills along the bayous of St. Landry Parish. The famous Bowie Knife became a legend in Opelousas prior to his historic death at the Alamo. . | Jackson,
La. becomes the seat of justice for Feliciana Parish by Act of Legislature
in January. Public town square is donated by James Ficklin and John Horton.
In active use until the parish divided into East and West Feliciana in
February, 1824. The College of Louisiana is founded here in 1825. Historic
district on National Register of Historic Places.
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