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Andrew Jackson. : The hero of New-Orleans

Description: Image of a portrait on United States General Andrew Jackson on horseback raising his hat in his hand in full military uniform; soldiers fighting on the line with guns and artillery in the Battle of New Orleans in January of 1815 in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1838-1856
Call number: priJLC_MIL_001263
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Gen. Andrew Jackson. The hero of New-Orleans

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Image of a portrait on United States General Andrew Jackson on horseback raising his hat in his hand in full military uniform; soldiers fighting on the line with guns and artillery in the Battle of New Orleans in January of 1815 in the background; dead or wounded men visible on the ground.

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Gen: Andrew Jackson. The hero of New-Orleans

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Image of a full-length portrait of United States General Andrew Jackson on horseback raising his hat in his hand in military uniform; soldiers fighting on the line with guns and artillery in the Battle of New Orleans in January of 1815 in the background; dead or wounded men visible on the ground.

priJLC_MIL_001511

Battle of New Orleans

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Image of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 during the War of 1812; General Andrew Jackson on horseback in military uniform with arm outstretched directs soldiers firing guns and cannons at British troops; American and British ships fire on each other off the coast in the background; wounded and dead men visible in foreground.

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Andrew Jackson with the Tennessee forces on the Hickory Grounds (Ala) A.D. 1814

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Image of a full-length portrait of Major General Andrew Jackson on horseback in a wooded area in military uniform with arm outstretched and hat in hand; United States troops shoot at British soldiers from behind a barricade at Hickory Grounds, Alabama, in 1814 during the War of 1812 in the background.

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Surrender of Port Hudson, La. July 8th 1863

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Image of Union and Confederate officers on horseback meeting as Union General Nathaniel P. Banks accepts the surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana, during the American Civil War; guns are stacked by Confederate soldiers and a Confederate flag is gathered at left; artillery unit and soldiers line the coastline in background.

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The Soudan

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Image of a gory battle scene in a Sudanese city with British cavalry on horseback, armed with guns and swords, fighting bare-chested Arab natives with spears and swords, one jumping native holds the decapitated head of a British soldier; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."

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Andrew Jackson. : The hero of New-Orleans

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