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Kalor yinere's Warning to Jacks on _	■	1 vhen Major Villere escaped from the British at 12 A. on the
^	OH	of December, lSlU, and passing acrosr the river, rode up the
et^ and again crossing, hastened to Jackson's Headquarters —
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he enemy—it = ring the relation rest emphasis, that the British
c , ^01+ pl0yal Street—ana announced the arrival of t n°^ D^tpr one o'clock P. —Genera-1 Jackson, on hea
ofrlllr Villere, d.cl»re«, vith *..........*-
Should not sleep on our soil.
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He immediately issued his orders tc his various corns, vhich ve"€ «=cstter?d in an"* about the city, directing them to march i~-e-Jiptely dcvn to Rodriguez Canal and prepare to attack the erery that night.
Plauche’s B-ttalion v-ir then stationed ~ t the Bayou Bridge. I^-ediatelv on receiving their orders, the gallant young men started in a^trisk'trot. This vas about three o'clock.
’.Tien they reached the parade around near the river, the old Fort ?-t. Charles—where the United c'tetes Mint nov stands — it vas discov~red that the greater rr-rt of the ren had nc flints in their runs. They ver^ kept waiting for some time for flints, and vere finally supplied by Jepn lafitte, the Barr°tarian Privateer, vho hns~been so falsely held out to the world as a blood-thirsty pirate.
I.aronde * s Plan t p.t ion
Thus provided, the Bat+alion resumed its march, and reached larondes1 Plantation in time to protect the left flank of the ^th Infantry—vhich vas nearly turned by the British—and maintained itself under fire and in the chsre.e vith all the steadiness and vigor of regular troops.
An unfortunate countermand of Col. Ross alone prevented Plauche from charging bayonets on the British, at a time vhen they must have teen forced to give avay, and a dislocation of their line effected.
In this, and in the subsequent glorious actions, the nev Brigadier served as Corporal.
Brl tlsh Detv-Assi rt ant - r t err a s t e r - Gen cr a 1 Pel -cev Brvans
It vas in the bloody affair of the 23d that a young, handsome, and enterprising officer, whose grade v=s considerably above that of our Brigadier—being Denutv-Assi^tant Ouarternaster-General—greatly distinguished himself in the ranks of the British.
He vas badly vounded in the action, receiving a ball of one of Coffee’s fifles through his leg—a vound from which hs barely recovered in time to tr^e a cart in the disastrous attack of January 8, vhen he vas ag^in severely vounded.