For such a purpose Jackson’s resources were ample. Four miles above the city his Tennessee militia were camped,--Carroll’s brigade numbering probably about two thousand effectives, and the remnants of Coffee’s mounted brigade numbering some seven hundred men in the field. The Mississippi and New Orleans volunteers could be reckoned at about seven hundred men,[508] besides three regiments of city militia. The Seventh United States Infantry produced four hundred and sixty-five men in the ranks; the Forty-fourth counted three hundred and thirty-one; while a detachment of artillerists, twenty-two in number, with two six-pound field-pieces, added greatly to the numerical strength of the Infantry.[509] Against Thornton’s force, numbering one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight rank-and-file, or about nineteen hundred men all told, Jackson could oppose about five thousand Infantry with two field-pieces. Besides these land forces Jackson was provided with another resource. In the river at New Orleans lay a war-schooner, the “Carolina,” rated at fourteen guns, armed with one long twelve-pounder and six twelve-pound carronades on a broadside.[510] A sixteen-gun sloop-of-war, the “Louisiana,” was also at New Orleans, but not ready for immediate use. The “Carolina” could be brought instantly into action, and her broadside of seven twelve-pounders, added to the field-battery of two six-pounders, gave Jackson immense advantage over the British, who had no artillery except two three-pounders and rockets, and whose lines must be enfiladed by the “Carolina’s” fire. Jackson, aware of his superiority, expected with reason to destroy the British detachment. He did not even think more than half his force necessary for the purpose, but detached the whole of Carroll’s brigade and the three regiments of city militia,--fully twenty-five hundred men,--to guard the town against an apprehended attack from the north. Without giving the reasons which led him to believe that the British could approach on that side without ample warning, his report said,-- “Apprehending a double attack by the way of Chef Menteur, I left General Carroll’s force and the militia of the city posted on the Gentilly road, and at five o’clock P.M. marched to meet the enemy, whom I was resolved to attack in his first position, with Major Hind’s dragoons, General Coffee’s brigade, parts of the Seventh and Forty-fourth regiments, the uniformed companies of militia under the command of Major Plauché, two hundred men of color chiefly from St. Domingo, raised by Colonel Savary and acting under the command of Major Daquin, and a detachment of artillery under the direction of Colonel McRea, with two six-pounders under the command of Lieutenant Spots,--not exceeding in all fifteen hundred.”