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On the eighth day of January, 1815, David Bannister Morgan, Brigadier General U.S.A., with 400 militia, held his position, called in the British official reports “The Flanking Battery,” and from which, to employ Gen. Jackson’s own words, “Jackson could have been shelled out in ten minutes,” against 1600 veterans of the Peninsula under Col. Wm. Thornton H.B.M.A., until Gen. Jackson had immortally won the Battle of New Orleans.
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