Question

Someone please answer all three of these questions.

Why was the Battle of New Orleans fought?
What did the British hope to gain from the Battle of New Orleans?
What could the Americans have lost?

Answer 1

Future President Andrew Jackson and a ragtag group of militia warriors, frontiersmen, slaves, Native Americans, and even pirates resisted a frontal assault by a greater British army in the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815, suffering horrendous fatalities along the way.

Step-by-step explanation:

The British set out for New Orleans in the hopes that they could conquer the city and cut off Louisiana from the rest of the United States. Nevertheless, pirate Jean Lafitte had forewarned the Americans of the raid, and when the British arrived at the Rodriguez Canal, they discovered militiamen under General Andrew Jackson well-entrenched.