St. Bernard Parish Set to Observe 209th Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans January 5-8

The Battle of New Orleans, a military campaign extending from December 1814 through January 1815, was the final engagement between British and American armed forces in the War of 1812. The American victory in the Battle of New Orleans forever resolved the question of the United States of America’s ownership of New Orleans and the Mississippi River Valley. American ownership of the Mississippi…