Battle of Lake Borgne

The British won this by rowing. By one count, about 42 boats carrying roughly 980 sailors and Royal Marines pulled through the night and the next day against a strong current to reach the American gunboats near Malheureux Island on December 14, 1814. Boarding began at close range, and both commanders, Thomas ap Catesby Jones and Nicholas Lockyer, were badly wounded. The fight ended around half past noon, with 17 British killed and 77 wounded against 41 American killed or wounded. Jackson declared martial law the next day, and without the gunboats he could no longer watch the lake.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 20 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• The Cabildo — 24 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 24 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 24 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Terre-Aux-Boeuf — 11 mi
• St. Malo — 11 mi
• Plaquemines Parish — 14 mi
• Plantation of Jacques Philippe Villere — 17 mi