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Show 240 LIFE OF GEN. JACKSON. CHAP. we'J'e ordered to march with their commands, and take VII. a position as convenient toN ew Orleans as they could ...,..._obtain a sufficiency of forage, OC• recruit their horses; 1814. having regard to some central pom. t, w he nce th ey might, without loss of time, proceed wh_erever _danger should be most imminent. Every thing bemg ar· General ranged, and general Winchester having reached the Winches- Alabama Jackson, on the 22d day of November, left terarrtves, ' d bed ' and Jack- Mobile, for the city of New Orleans, ~ reac 1t ~~:!.'~~ on the 1st day of December; where h1s head quarfe:;.: or- ters, for the present, were established. LlFE OF GEN. JACKSON. CHAPTER Vlll. Jackson's correspondence with governor Claiborne.-His ad· dress to the citizens of Louisia.na.-Militia from Tennessee and Kentucky advance; and general plans adopted for defence.- Pian for filling delinquencies in the army.-British shipping arrife on the coast.-Loss of the Sea Horse.Battle on the lake, and loss of the gun boats.-Jackson reviews the militia.-His address to them.-Expresses sent to generals Coffee and Carrol I.-Declaration of martial law, at New Ol'leans.-The British clfcct a landing, and Jackson prepares to meet them. GENERAL JACKSON was now on a new the- CHAP. atre, and soon to, be brought in collision with an ene- VIII. my, different from any he had yet encountered: the~ time had arrived, to call forth all the energies he pas- 1814' sessed. His military career, from its commence-ment, had been obstructed by innumerable difficul-ties, but far greater were now rising to his view. HisDecembor. body worn down by sickness and exhaustion, with a mind constantly alive to tl1e apprehension, that, with the means given him, it would not be in his power to satisfY his own wishes, and the expectations of his country, were circumstances well calculated to depress him. He was as yet without sufficient strength or pre-paration, to attempt successful opposition against the numerous and well-trained troops, which were expected shortly at some unprepared point, to enter, and Jay Hh |