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Andrew Jackson fucking destroyed the British at the Battle of New Orleans
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Date: July 31st, 2026 11:53 PM Author: umber sweet tailpipe nursing home This is what happened to British troops in 1815 who had just kicked Napoleon's ass:
The serious fighting ended by eight in the morning. A short while later Jackson and the ranking active British officer, John Lambert, agreed to a ceasefire to allow each side to collect its wounded and bury its dead. George Gleig wasn’t part of the British hospital detail, but he wanted to assess the damage his comrades had suffered. “Prompted by curiosity, I mounted my horse and rode to the front,” he explained. What he observed burned an image in his brain. “Of all the sights I ever witnessed, that which met me there was beyond comparison the most shocking and the most humiliating. Within the narrow compass of a few hundred yards were gathered together nearly a thousand bodies, all of them arrayed in British uniforms. Not a single American was among them; all were English, and they were thrown by dozens into shallow holes, scarcely deep enough to furnish them with a slight covering of earth. An American officer stood by smoking a cigar, and apparently counting the slain with a look of savage exultation, and repeating over and over to each individual that approached him, that their loss amounted only to eight men killed and fourteen men wounded.”
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Date: July 31st, 2026 11:56 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe it didn't matter. it had no effect on the war's outcome (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038291) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:00 AM Author: umber sweet tailpipe nursing home It made the world take US arms seriously. Earlier in the war the British had taken our capitol with little difficulty. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038301) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:09 AM Author: Scarlet titillating locus My understanding is that toward the end of the battle the retreating British units ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles, and they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch them, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Date: August 1st, 2026 6:15 PM Author: mewling sienna cuck newt (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039711) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 6:24 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe people who ain't so good at book learnin can still learn history through song, meter and rhyme (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039722) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:38 PM Author: Blathering legal warrant (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039890) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:41 PM Author: Blathering legal warrant Most historians believe that after the battle the Americans marched back to town in their dirty ragged pants and danced all night with them pretty girls from France. They couldn't understand 'em but they had the sweetest charms and they understood 'em better when they got 'em in their arms. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039891) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:09 AM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe like you would know (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038325) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 4:46 PM Author: Insecure very tactful field You are ignorant and stupid. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039575) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 6:59 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe our own US Army didn't even take itself seriously until well into the Civil War. That's why it wasn't considered dishonorable when Lee defected. Literally no one thought "you better not tangle with the US Army after what happened in New Orleans," in part because Jackson was acting outside the chain of command. That's also why no one ever emulates Jackson BTW. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039746) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:03 AM Author: yapping lime sanctuary it made Jackson a hero and gave him the cred to avert the civil war for a few decades by threatening to hang any southern son of a bitch who tried to pull any shit under his watch (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038314) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:09 AM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe wow who cares? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038327) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:11 AM Author: yapping lime sanctuary well jackson is generally regarded as a fairly transformative president, there is pre jackson us federal gov't and post jackson, and had the war kicked off early the south's odds of victory skyrocket, nobody ever gives him credit for that but the union didn't have unlimited irish scum to toss into a meatgrinder at that point (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038330) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:12 AM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe Is there a takehome lesson? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038334) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:14 AM Author: yapping lime sanctuary that the united states of america might well not exist today but for Andy Jackson being a badass and becoming president (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038339) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:27 AM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe So what? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038372) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Infuriating orchestra pit Stfu you faggot cuck (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039567) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 5:16 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe Fascinating (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039630) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 4:41 PM Author: apoplectic diverse base it did matter, fuck clowns is why it matters (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039563) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 4:49 PM Author: Mind-boggling stag film coldplay fan Yeah by that token Cannae was nbd, just skip Hannibal and go right to skippio. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039588) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 5:17 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe Skip both unless you have a point to make. Hagiography is gay (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039631) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 5:31 PM Author: Shaky national (Lisa Simpson) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039644) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:05 AM Author: Scarlet titillating locus Confirmed in popular culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjXM6x_0KZk&list=RDmjXM6x_0KZk&start_radio=1 (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50038318) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 4:40 PM Author: umber sweet tailpipe nursing home Monroe had no desire to see Jackson loose again, and the war scare—war hope, in Jackson’s case—passed when Spain ratified the treaty. Jackson was left to find his therapeutic violence vicariously. Andrew Donelson was attending the national military academy at West Point, with his uncle’s partial approval. Jackson endorsed the soldier’s calling but distrusted the War Department types who ran the academy. Donelson, a soul after his uncle’s independent spirit, had defended a fellow cadet unfairly treated—in Donelson’s view—by the academy’s administration. Jackson applauded his nephew’s stand for the right. “My dear nephew, I rejoice in the interest you have taken in aiding to procure redress for innocence unjustly injured. Such acts are the buds of virtue.” Jackson told Donelson to watch out for himself as well. “If ever a superior forgets what he owes to you and to his station, and attempts to insult or maltreat you as has been the case with others, you have my permission to resign.” Should Donelson suffer physical abuse, he had his uncle’s permission—and encouragement—to retaliate in the most vigorous manner. “If the superior attempts either to strike or kick you, put him to instant death.”
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Solid advice to his nephew- kill any superior officer at West Point who tried to strike him. Jackson was a major hothead- would challenge someone to a duel on the drop of a hat. |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 5:19 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe Yeah, why don't all these Andrew Jackson lovers ever try to follow his example? They put his face on our money but they never even try to emulate him. Weird! (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039632) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 6:21 PM Author: Alcoholic son of senegal genital piercing There was a hit song about this battle, not flame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__uFnEMJqjg |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:02 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) Old Hickory made this country great. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039848) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:08 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe no one knows what he actually did though. They can't tell you what's different today because of him (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039851) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:16 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) Andrew Jackson was sui generis like America-- no quarter to our enemies, let the world beware (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039863) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:21 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe he was a sickly old man and people thought his wife was a whore. What did he actually do? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039879) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:24 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) Jackson gained the love and respect of his men by fighting to the death and eating the bark from a tree if need be to win at all costs. America #1, always and forever. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039880) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:43 PM Author: Fragrant spruce giraffe The people who got him elected were 1/3 his age. They never fought. He was like their Joe Biden, stepping into office as an old man after decades in politics (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039893) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 10:28 PM Author: Scarlet titillating locus Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise, actually. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50040054) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 8:35 PM Author: electric den This is literally the battle where the cavalry charge was invented, the entire history of warfare is different without it (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888260&forum_id=2#50039885) |