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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
> > It really didn't take a Jackson to defeat them -- they would have simply
> > been swallowed up if they had managed to push the Americans out
> of position.
>
> Quite so.  Even  with the sorry state of the American army in
> general, they'd
> have run into "the Russian problem" - even then the United States
> was just
> too big, at least for a force the size the British had at New Orleans.
>
And while the US would have had a problem mustering a force of drilled
regulars to face the British in the open, they didn't need to do that --
riflemen would have nickel-and-dimed them to death, and a Concord on a much
vaster scale.

Look at Cornwallis' campaign in the Carolinas, and how he won battles, and
came to disaster in the end.
>


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