I only care because I was taught that song at about 4 and, according to my older sisters, sang it non stop for about two years. 1814. Battle was in 1815.
Marines, US Regulars, Choctaw Warriors, Pirates, Businessmen of New Orleans, Free men of Color, Tennessee and Kentucky frontiersmen, Louisiana Militia, sailors. I think they played a very defensive 4-3-2-1 and had the Gators in goal.
And the Battle of New Orleans was fought 18 days after the Treaty of Ghent had been signed. Even in the best of (winter) weather, with favourable winds and the fastest ship on the Atlantic, it would have taken a minimum of 3 weeks for news of the signing to reach New York. As for sending it overland to New Orleans . . .
I don’t think that they started Gator in the goal. They. Have Cannon starting as main attacker with Gun playing alongside. Gator started on the bench and subbed in when Cannon ran out steam.
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One last tangent, I promise. Speed of travel/communications is a great way to appreciate the actual size/scale of empires/nations. Nowadays, we look at a lot of ancient empires, and most look pretty tiny compared to the Roman or Mongol empires. But, when you consider how long it took to travel by foot or horse, all of a sudden the Sumerian Empire is large enough that it takes weeks to travel on foot. For the Western Roman Empire, it took at least a month, even with the famous Roman infrastructure, to get a message out to the edges of the Empire in Londinium or Judea. So it was in this case, it took many weeks for news of the Treaty to reach the American frontier. Now, the heads of State would just send out a tweet.
True. Maybe it would mean a transfer to Germany then? Or would it be France? But now that I've discovered how his last name is actually pronounced, "D-Day" works even better!