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Jan. 8, 1815  More than a century and a half after James Roberts published his narrative of fighting in two wars, the memoir is still available for sale. A U.S. army that included Black and Choctaw soldiers helped defeat the British in the Battle of New Orleans.  While peace negotiations to end the War of 1812 were underway, the British carried out a raid in hopes of capturing New Orleans. After the British captured a gunboat flotilla, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson put the city under martial law.  Despite being outnumbered, the U.S. army of about 2,000 (including a battalion of free Black men, mostly refugees from Santo Domingo, and up to 60 Choctaw Indians) defeated the British

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