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nothing really new in this concise study of the Battle of New Orleans, but Hickey places the event squarely in the context of the Atlantic World, Native American resistance and the Napoleonic Wars.
Whether or not the United States "won" the war of, two engagements that occurred toward the end of the conflict had an enormous influence on the development of American identity: the successful defenses of the cities of Baltimore and New Orleans.
Both engagements bolstered national confidence and spoke to the lan of citizen soldiers and their militia officers, The Battle of New Orleansperhaps because it punctuated the war, lent itself to frontier mythology, and involved the largerthanlife figure of Andrew Jacksonbecame especially important in popular memory.
In Glorious Victory, leading War ofscholar Donald R, Hickey recounts the New Orleans campaign and Jackson's key role in the battle,

Drawing on a lifetime of research, Hickey tells the story of America's "forgotten conflict, " He explains why the fragile young republic chose to challenge Great Britain, then a global power with a formidable navy, He also recounts the early campaigns of the warWilliam Hull's ignominious surrender at Detroit inOliver H, Perry's remarkable victory on Lake Erie and the demoralizing British raids in the Chesapeake that culminated in the burning of Washington,

Tracing Jackson's emergence as a leader in Tennessee and his extraordinary success as a military commander in the field, Hickey finds in Jackson a bundle of contradictions: an enemy of privilege who belonged to Tennessee's ruling elite, a slaveholder who welcomed free blacks into his army, an Indianhater who adopted a native orphan, and a general who lectured his superiors and sometimes ignored their orders while simultaneously demanding unquestioning obedience from his men.
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students and the general public, Glorious Victory will reward readers with a clear understanding of Andrew Jackson's role in the War ofand his iconic place in the postwar era.
Don Hickey is a professor of history at Wayne State College, He earned his B. A. in, his M. A. in, and his Ph. D. infrom the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, .