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On December 25, 1814, American Major General Andrew Jackson began fortifying the west bank of the Mississippi River. By January 8, nearly a thousand Kentucky and Louisiana militiamen and several artillery batteries defended it, with some guns supplied from the American fleet. British commander Sir Edward Pakenham recognized the threat these guns posed to his troops on the east bank and included an attack on the west bank positions in his battle plans. Delays in the assault there brought a British victory that came too late to salvage the disastrous British defeat on the east bank. No traces of these batteries remain today.
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