Starting this April and continuing through 2015, the U.S. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit is currently providing support to the Commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans.
Sailors aboard the USS Wasp check the plugs for the Marines' personal and professional electrical devices April 9, 2012. American combatants, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, prevented an overwhelming British force, commanded by Admiral Alexander Cochrane and General Edward Pakenham, from seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase. Antique 1854 engraving, 'Battle of New Orleans Ñ from a Painting by Merritt.' The Battle of New Orleans was an engagement fought in January 1815, constituting the final major battle of the War of 1812, and the most one-sided battle of that war.
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