(July 31, 2012 at 12:24 pm)Shell B Wrote:I'm sorry sugar pie but it did. The British had thought to stop American expansion so they could control the Mississippi River and the Louisiana Territory for their commercial interests in the Gulf.(July 31, 2012 at 12:09 pm)A Theist Wrote: The Battle of New Orleans was still significant since it thwarted British hopes of stopping America's expansion westward beyond the Mississippi River.
No, it didn't. They were going to leave, anyway.
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