Nine Roads to the Battle of New Orleans

Author Ryan Starrett examines nine lives who played critical roles at the Battle of New Orleans. Andrew Jackson. Edward Pakenham. Jean Laffite. Reuben Kemper. George Robert Gleig. Edward Nicolls. Arsenne Lacarriere Latour. Daniel Todd Patterson. Peter Ellis Bean. Nine men from nine different worlds travel nine roads, all of which end at Chalmette Battlefield, seven miles outside New Orleans. The fate of nine lives--and of a nation--will be settled over a 16-day period. The intricately interwoven tapestry of their stories relates the principal events of their time, from the American and Mexican Revolutions to Napoleon to the battle for the Gulf Coast, and culminates in the epochal Battle of New Orleans.