I’m not 100% sure but judging by the picture the men on the right seem rich and appear to have ate all of the food and they look full. as for the man on the left, he appears to be poor. the rich didn’t leave any scraps. just bones. after the feast for the rich, the poor were left nothing.
this is just how i looked at it. doesn’t make it accurate. just giving my thoughts
A couple of weeks before the Battle of New Orleans, the U.S. and British governments had negotiated and signed a peace treaty that put an effective end to the war between the two countries. Given that news from Europe took about a month to reach the U.S., both the U.S. soldiers led by General Andrew Jackson and the Red Coats led by General Sir Edward Pakenham was a pointless confrontation. A few weeks after the resounding U.S. victory (only 13 men were killed on the U.S. side and 285 on the British side), Jackson and his men got news of the peace treaty signed before their feat of arms.
