This swashbuckling account of Andrew Jackson and the climactic battle of the War of 1812 is ol' fashioned flag-waving, musket-firing American history, by a grandly ol' fashioned American historian-National Book Award winner, Robert Remini.

It was America's Agincourt-a pivotal battle against overwhelming odds that, in its improbable victory, changed the entire future of the young nation. Before the battle of New Orleans, as the dismal War of 1812 dragged on, many in Europe considered the U.S. merely a temporary experiment in freedom. After the dramatic victory on January 10, 1815-when a motley coalition of troops under Andrew Jackson inflicted thousands of British casualties with only a handful of losses-never again did the American people have to prove to themselves or anyone else their right to hold a sovereign, independent republic.

This is popular American History at its best, told in a rollicking, cannon-fire filled narrative by the world's leading authority on Andrew Jackson, whom Doug Brinkley has called a "national treasure."