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.
The answer is the third option, or C.
Thank Lin Manuel Miranda for making Hamilton, right? ;D
<u>It is true</u>. <em><u>On January 1, 1863</u></em>, as the nation approached its third year of civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the<u> final Emancipation Proclamation</u>. <u>The preliminary Proclamation</u> was issued the year before, <em><u>on September 22nd</u></em>. <u>It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Southern rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."</u>
