<span>On January 8, 1815, the British marched against New Orleans, hoping that by capturing the city they could separate Louisiana from the rest of the United States. Pirate Jean Lafitte, however, had warned the Americans of the attack, and the arriving British found militiamen under General Andrew Jackson strongly entrenched at the Rodriquez Canal. In two separate assaults, the 7,500 British soldiers under Sir Edward Pakenham were unable to penetrate the U.S. defenses, and Jackson’s 4,500 troops, many of them expert marksmen from Kentucky and Tennessee, decimated the British lines. In half an hour, the British had retreated, General Pakenham was dead, and nearly 2,000 of his men were killed, wounded, or missing. U.S. forces suffered only EIGHT KILLED and 13 wounded.</span>
The Latin American revolutions from 1804 to 1821 were generally all "wars for independence", primarily in French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies. They were heavily influenced by the American and French revolutions. <span />
Well fossil fuels are such a largely used resource in the economy it is hard to transition from it since its so depended on for many things.
The Schlieffen Plan's strategy required that France be defeated swiftly – but this didn't happen. That failure led to sustained trench warfare on the Western Front. In those grim battles of attrition, such as the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun, Allied forces ultimately outnumbered the Germans
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increasing demands of new industries, an expanding population, agriculture, pollution, reckless development, and poor planning, especially in northern areas where there isn't much water.
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