Chains of Connections

The Battle of New Orleans was fought on this day in 1815…

Of course the war had already ended.

But that didn’t matter…

The major consequence of this battle was that it led in large part to the election of Andrew Jackson as president of the United States. A complex and deeply shadowed figure…

And whether something like this would have happened whether he was president or not, Jackson took active charge of Indian removal, and the Trail of Tears, events hard today to call anything but genocide…