new Orleans

A few years after Napoleon took back New Orleans, he faced the threat of an "anti-French alliance" led by the United Kingdom, and the Haitian Revolution failed Napoleon's plan to conquer the New Caribbean. Desperate for funds, Napoleon sold the entire Louisiana colony (from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Canadian border in the north) together with New Orleans to the United States at a low price in 1803. After that, the Yankees flocked to the United States. The French looked down on these "uncivilized" American farmers and thought they were vulgar. They were not allowed to live in the French Quarter. The Yankees had to reclaim the wasteland outside the city, which is where the Lower Garden District is today until the Upper Town. At the same time that the Yankees flocked to New Orleans, the Clio nobles who fled in a panic after the Haitian Revolution also came to this cultural treasure that is closest to the customs of South America and the Caribbean islands, and quickly became the new rich in New Orleans, settling down in the "closest place to the United States".

No matter how many changes were made, the old city was always full of music, the backyard flowers echoed on the lazy Mississippi River, and Nora was singing and dancing. But surprisingly, in the Anglo-American War known as the "Second American Revolution", the British army invaded New Orleans in December 1814 to compete for the Mississippi estuary. The outnumbered American general Jackson came to fight and temporarily gathered a group of rabble. Americans in New Orleans, new German immigrants, freed slaves, Indians, Clio nobles, French-Canadian new immigrants who had a feud with Britain joined the war, and even Juan Lafayette, the notorious pirate leader in the Gulf of Mexico, led his Rogue Army to participate in the battle. The battlefield started today in Sharmet outside West City, and the smoke billowed in the cold wind in January was so tragic!

To this day, every December, Salmet holds a retrospective performance of the war. Colored signal flares slipped through the black night sky, and listening to the seemingly hidden sound of guns in the distance, my thoughts always involuntarily wandered to the American Civil War more than 40 years later. Although the people of New Orleans defeated the British, the arrogant aristocratic paradise of the south is still gone in the tide of slave liberation. The bronze statue of General Lee now stands alone in the garden area and the circle between the lower city. His ambition has not yet been fulfilled, and the world has become like the wind.