The enemy having hastily quitted a post which they had gained possession of on the other side of the river, and we having immediately returned to it, both armies at present occupy their former positions. Whether, after the severe loss he has sustained, he is preparing to return to his shipping or to make still mightier efforts to attain his first object, I do not pretend to determine—it becomes me to act as though the latter were his intention. One thing, however, seems certain, that if he still calculates on effecting what he has hitherto been unable to accomplish, he must expect considerable re-enforcements; as the force with which he landed must undoubtedly be diminished by at least three thousand. Besides the loss which he sustained on the night of the 23d ult. which is estimated at four hundred, he cannot have suffered less between that period and the morning of the 8th inst. than three hundred—having, within that time, been repulsed in two general attempts to drive us from our position, and there having been continual cannonading and skirmishing during the whole of it. Yet he is still able to show a very formidable force. There is little doubt that the commanding general, sir Edward Packenham, was killed in the action of the 8th, and that major-generals Kean and Gibbs were badly wounded. Whenever a more leisure moment shall occur, I will take the liberty to make out and forward you a more circumstantial account of the several actions, and particularly that of the 8th; in doing which my chief motive will be to render justice to those brave men I have the honour to command, and who have so remarkably distinguished themselves. I have the honour to be, &c. ANDREW JACKSON. [Illustration: Back Cover] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Punctuation, and spacing in abbreviations and initials, were normalized. Variations in hyphenation were maintained. The placement of the advertising material was re-ordered to occur after the title page. Spelling has been maintained, with the exception of the following typographical or printers’ errors: Page 5: “resistence” was changed to “resistance”. Page 11: “collossus” was changed to “colossus”. Page 12: “occurrance” was changed to “occurrence”. Page 17: “or untanned deer-skin” was changed to “of untanned deer-skin”. Pages 17, 20: “Bayou Bienvenu” was changed to “Bayou Bienvenue”. Page 19: “prise” was changed to “praise”. Page 21: “individuals” was changed to “individual”. Page 23: “Jqckson” was changed to “Jackson”. Page 26: “and further possibility” was changed to “any further possibility”. Page 33: “striken” was changed to “stricken”. A variation in the spelling of McCarty or Macarty was maintained. Italicized words and phrases are presented by surrounding the text with _underscores_.