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Bowman, it's possible, maybe likely that Britain would not have kept New Orleans after a battlefield victory in 1815. My point is that permanent ownership of the city and the territory by the United States was far from settled, at that time and later, and that New Orleans was the key to the heartland of North America.
When the troops returned from the Spanish American War, the demobilized bands sold their instruments in New Orleans. The glut of brass wind instruments gave rise to the fabled New Orleans brass bands, more music bequeathed by war.
More like N'awlins.And Chartres Street is Charters, Urselines is Ursuns...
The Battle of New Orleans did matter but only for the fact that without it Johnny Horton would have been best remembered, if at all, as the author of ‘Honky-Tonk Man’ and thus would have been an even smaller footnote in the history of popular American music..
When I was lucky enough to visit Nawlins I couldn't get the song 'Walking to Nawlins' out of my head, well the first line as I couldn't remember the rest. Going down in the hotel lift, for our walking tour, I asked fellow tourists. Like me they knew the first line only. Same in the reception area, and on the mini-bus to the centre of town. Even the (American) tour guide knew the first line only, but he said, 'Don't worry I will ask the local guide when we pick her up' The local guide, when asked,uttered the dreaded words, 'I know the first line.....'Never mind we did have a great time there.