{"id":7085,"date":"2015-01-21T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2015-01-21T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:49:48","slug":"battle-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/battle-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | The Battle of New Orleans &#8211; The &#8220;Other&#8221; Battle of 1815"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7086\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7086 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-1024x785.jpeg\" alt=\"BattleNewOrleans\" width=\"584\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-1024x785.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-300x230.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-768x589.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-1536x1177.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-100x77.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-150x115.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-200x153.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-450x345.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-600x460.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans-900x690.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/01\/BattleNewOrleans.jpeg 1566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battle of New Orleans and death of Major General Packenham on the 8th of January 1815, West and Joseph Yeager, Hand colored engraving by Yeager after West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>January 8, 2015 is the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans. Fought between an American force of around 5,000 men under Andrew Jackson and 7,500 British troops commanded by Sir Edward Pakenham, the outcome forced the British to leave Louisiana, thus ending the War of 1812. Five months later, the British and their Prussian allies defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p>As with any battle, much information has been lost and eyewitness accounts provide only a snapshot of the fighting. Consequently, myths and legends emerge and these often influence the iconography of the battle.\u00a0In the ten images featured in this exhibit, the American artists propagandize the battle by depicting the Americans as mighty victors over a weaker British force. The hero of the day, Jackson, is given prominence throughout;\u00a0however,\u00a0the death of his counterpart, Pakenham, has not been overlooked, as is the case in the engraving featured here. Of particular note is the fact that few if any\u00a0of the artists were present at the battle. Though not based on first person observation, these images exerted great influence over perception of the events in 1815.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates<\/strong>:\u00a0January 20\u00a0\u2013 March 31, 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a010 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Bopp Seminar Room, Second\u00a0Floor, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8, 2015 is the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans. Fought between an American force of around 5,000 men under Andrew Jackson and 7,500 British troops commanded by Sir Edward Pakenham, the outcome forced the British to leave Louisiana, thus ending the War of 1812. Five months later, the British and their Prussian <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/battle-new-orleans\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | The Battle of New Orleans &#8211; The &#8220;Other&#8221; Battle of 1815<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}