site of Battle of Lake Borgne
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Site of the 1814 naval engagement between a flotilla of USN gunboats and a force of longboats from the Royal Navy task force intent on capturing New Orleans.
Decisive tactical victory for the British, but bought additional time for Gen. Andrew Jackson's forces to prepare their land defenses.
Decisive tactical victory for the British, but bought additional time for Gen. Andrew Jackson's forces to prepare their land defenses.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Borgne
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Coordinates: 30°8'10"N 89°34'21"W
- Part of the bridge blown out 28 km
- Size of Isle au Pitre on a 2003 map 35 km
- Size of Brush Island on a 2003 map 38 km
- Mitchell Island on a 2003 map 42 km
- Site of former Jackson County Airport 107 km
- Burrwood, Louisiana 130 km
- Magnolia NOLF (site) 176 km
- Republic of West Florida (Historical) 223 km
- Death Railway - site of deadly BAY LINE train wreck - Feb. 26, 1978 399 km
- Abandoned Apalachicola Northern Railroad Spur 440 km
- Saint Catherine Pass 9 km
- Lake Borgne 14 km
- Half Moon Island 14 km
- Goose Flat 24 km
- Lake Eugenia 28 km
- Mt St. Malo 29 km
- Location of village of Saint Malo 29 km
- Bayou La Loutre (old course of Mississippi River) 34 km
- Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Mr. Go) (Closed) 36 km
- Breton Sound 53 km