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Explanation: On January 8, 1815, the United States achieved its greatest battlefield victory of the War of 1812 at New Orleans. The Battle of New Orleans thwarted a British effort to gain control of a critical American port and elevated Major General Andrew Jackson to national fame.
There also people that think WW1 was the first modern war.
But the reason for people to believe that the fist modern war was the civil war is because it was the first war after the industrial revolution, that also meant more technology and advancement were made, and last it was because these new technology's resulted in more deaths than any other American war.