Choctaw Nation

Most Choctaw fighting men were not at Chalmette. They had joined Major Uriah Blue's force that took Pensacola in November 1814. The trader Pierre Juzan brought roughly 30 to 60 Choctaws to New Orleans, where they patrolled the Chef Menteur road, and about 18 joined Jackson's night attack on December 23. Before January 8 they held the American left flank and sniped at British pickets from the swamp. The alliance did not last. Under the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, nearly 15,000 Choctaw (Chahta) people moved west by 1833, and about 2,500 died on the way.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.2 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 — 4.3 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 — 4.3 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 — 4.4 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

• Kentucky Militia — steps away
• U.S. Marines — steps away
• U.S. Navy — steps away
• Louisiana Militia — steps away