Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 303

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
"ALMOST INCREDIBLE VICTORY!" (WAR OF 1812.) Battle of New Orleans report in the National Intelligencer. 4 pages, 21 x 13 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, toned, uncut, small ink burn in subscriber's name in upper margin. Washington, 7 February 1815

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A front-page report which leads with General Andrew Jackson's day-after letter on the battle. The headline reads "Almost Incredible Victory! From New-Orleans. . . . The Enemy, attacking our entrenched Army on the 8th, beaten and repulsed by Jackson and his brave associates, with great slaughter."