Greatest Fury
"Davis's accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling."--The Wall Street JournalFrom master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the…
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"Davis's accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling."--The Wall Street JournalFrom master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republicIt was a battle that could not be won. Outnumbered farmers, merchants, backwoodsmen, smugglers, slaves, and Choctaw Indians, many of them unarmed, were up against the cream of the British army, professional soldiers who had defeated the great Napoleon and set Washington, D.C., ablaze. At stake was nothing less than the future of the vast American heartland, from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, as the ragtag American forces fought to hold New Orleans, the gateway of the Mississippi River and an inland empire.Tipping the balance