Answer:
In this example Hector is the appellant
Explanation:
An appellant is a person who is not happy or satisfied with the decision of a lower court and hence he/she appeals to the higher court for looking into the decision taken by the lower court with an expectation of reversing the decision of the lower court.
Since, Hector is also appealing to the higher court with an expectation of reversing the decision of the lower court, he will be known as an appellant
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.