Pakenham's Fall

Pakenham was 36 and the Duke of Wellington's brother-in-law, since his sister Catherine married Arthur Wellesley in 1806. He had commanded the Third Division at Salamanca and took the New Orleans army in September 1814 after Robert Ross was killed near Baltimore. On January 8, 1815, grapeshot shattered his knee and killed his horse, a second wound hit his arm, and a third, after he mounted again, broke his spine. His body went home in a cask of rum to the family vault at Killucan, County Westmeath. A statue of him stands in St Paul's Cathedral.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — steps away
  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 — 4.6 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 — 4.6 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 — 4.6 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

• Chalmette National Cemetery — steps away
• The Kentucky Rifle — 0.2 mi
• Fazendeville — 0.2 mi
• Louisiana Militia — 0.3 mi