Andrew Jackson, Edward Pakenham, Jean Laffite, Reuben Kemper, George Robert Gleig, Edward Nicolls, Arsene Lacarriere-Latour, Daniel Todd Patterson, Peter Ellis Bean. Nine men from nine different worlds traveled nine roads, all of which ended at Chalmette Battlefield, seven miles outside New Orleans. The fate of nine lives-and of a nation-would be settled over a sixteen-day period. Author Ryan Starrett examines the lives of nine influential Americans, Brits, smugglers, filibusters, abolitionists, architects, and soldiers and the key events that shaped their lives and led each to the Battle of New Orleans. The intricately interwoven tapestry of their stories relates the principal events of their time, from the American and Mexican Revolutions; toiHapoleon to the battle for the Gulf Coast, culminating in the epochal Battle of New Orleans.