New Orleans (and the Battle of)

[Elwood]

Intending to visit New Orleans late next month.  See the Battlefield and a few other sights.   I've only been to NO once, several years ago.  Did not stay the night and only spent enough time there to have a couple of beers and a few oysters.   Anyone visited the battlefield?  WWII Museum?  We are there just two days.  Recommendations would be appreciated.   Staying near the FQ.      

[Elwood]

clarionherald.org/2018/02/01/the-battle-of-new-orleans-the-power-of-prayer/

Interesting site I came across reading up on the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. Ursuline nuns were an order from France, no friends of the British. They kept written annals on their activities and those concerning the city. Some of the writings concerning the battle:

"Attack of the English:

The community together with all of the city was in grand consternation over the subject of the attack of the English and while all of the inhabitants went to the battlefield, all of the pious women and good black women went to the chapel of the Ursulines for prayer. We placed the statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor on the alter and our sisters made a promise that if the city gained victory, we would sing every year a solemn Mass in thanksgiving. Father DuBourg, Apostolic Vicar, celebrated Mass to pray to God of the Army through the intercession of Our Lady of Prompt Succor to deliver the city from the evil by which it was threatened. At the moment of Holy Communion, a messenger arrived in the church and announced in a loud voice the defeat of the English. Thus, that grand army commanded by generals, proud of their ability in military art, was cut in pieces."

After the battle, the nuns cared for the wounded, British and American. Both were highly appreciative and moved by the care they received.

[quincannon]

What is so remarkable about New Orleans is that every regiment in the British Army that fought there were highly experienced as a result of fighting the French in Spain and Portugal. The lesson here is that you don't fight entrenched American riflemen the same way you fight the French. I am a great admirer of General Sir John Moore, unfortunately KIA at the Battle of Corunna in Northern Spain. I have been known to muse about how if Sir John had lived and been in command at Chalmette Plantation instead of Packenham, would that battle have turned out differently and if so, by how much.