| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

The Battle of New Orleans. By Robert V. Remini. (New York: Viking, 1999. xiv, 226 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-670-88551-7.)

As Robert V. Remini says in his bibliography, there are "a whole slew of books" dealing with the battle of New Orleans. In fact, he has dealt with this topic at length in his biographies of Andrew Jackson. Invited by his editors to broaden his perspective of Jackson to an overall view of the battle, Remini has undertaken a methodical study of the battle, which he characterizes as "one of the great turning points in American history," as well as "a defining moment in the national character," because it unleashed a "powerful surge of nationalism." 1

Remini develops his narrative chronologically, beginning with the warfare in the South preliminary to Jackson taking over the defense of New Orleans. Jackson's bold assault on Pensacola early in November 1814 deprived the British of a staging base and that, coupled with their repulse by Americans at Mobile, forced the British to focus their attack upon New Orleans, "probably the worst site they could have chosen." . . .

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