St. Bernard remembers Battle of Lake Borgne
Thu, 2020-12-24 05:00
News Staff
St. Bernard Parish Officials and the Historical Society observed the Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Borgne on Monday, December 14. The Battle of Lake Borgne was the first military engagement in the British campaign for New Orleans culminating in the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. A British amphibious force consisting of shallow-draft vessels with canons defeated the American naval force after very fierce, bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Despite the American loss, the engagement alerted American military forces that the British had arrived in Louisiana waters and that the British land invasion was imminent. Louisianans organized a successful defense of New Orleans which secured American ownership of the Mississippi Valley.
