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On the 23d of December, 1814, at half past 1 oclock in the afternoon, the sentry at the door of General Jacksons headquarters visitors who had just come galloping down the street in great haste, and desired an immediate  audience with the General. These visitors were Major Gabriel, Colonel De la Ronde  and Mr. Dussau de la Croix. They brought the stirring news of the  approach of the vanguard of Villere plantation, nine miles below the city. These troops included the best in the world. Jackson was astounded the British could reach so far without discovery. What Jackson would do next would decide not just the fate of New Orleans, but that of the war and quite had been an economic and military disaster for the Americans. defaulted on its debt. States in New England were openly discussing succession and making a separate peace with the British. American invasions of Canada had been repulsed and far from annexing Canada now large parts of Maine were under British control. Even Washington View of the American rampart or para*et and the Beauregard mansion, built in the 1840s. Jacksons headquarters was in the The British never recognized Napoleon as a legitimate ruler and deemed the sale of the vast Louisiana territory to the United States to be fraudulent. Louisiana must be returned to Britains ally Spain, the former owner, or if Spain was too weak after the European conflict to administer it, be given the Britain.  After taking New Orleans, the British planned to head up the Mississippi Valley to secretary and the architect of the Louisiana invasion, put it , would be..little better than prisoners in their own country. This would probably bring about the end of the fledgling 30 year old republic with its outlandish idea of a democratically elected Lord Castlereagh,  who was banqueting in Paris at the time the news of the burning of Washington was received, exultingly and openly  boasted that it would not be long before Louisiana and the