- This week in Louisiana history. August 26, 1895 'Uncle' Earl Kemp Long born
- This week in New Orleans history. August 24,
1973. John Schwegmann was in hot water for fighting a
"milk war" between his grocery stores and the "orderly milk
marketing law" also known as a price-fixing law. Schwegmann
promised his customers rebates if the law was enacted.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals ordered him to cease what
it interpreted as illegal acts.
- This week in Louisiana. August 29-30. Cane
River
Zydeco Festival and Poker Run Zydeco music,
motorcycle events, dance contests and more.
Downtown Natchitoches
318.471.9960 or 318.652.0079. - Battle of New Orleans. August 26,
1814. NO.
XII. Head-quarters, Pensacola, August 26, 1814.
Order of the day for the first colonial battalion of the royal
corps of marines.
You are called upon to discharge a duty of the utmost danger, of the utmost peril. You will have to perform long and tedious marches through wildernesses, swamps and water-courses; your enemy from long habit inured to the climate, will have great advantages over you. But remember the twenty-one years of toil and glory of your country, and resolve to follow the example of your glorious companions, who have fought and spilt their blood in her service. Be equally faithful and strict in your moral discipline, and this, the last and most perfidious of your enemies, will not long maintain himself before you. A cause so sacred as that which has led you to draw your swords in Europe, will make you unsheath them in America, and I trust you will use them with equal credit and advantage. In Europe, your arms were not employed in defence of your country only, but of all those who groaned in the chains of oppression, and in America they are to have the same direction. The people whom you are now to aid and assist have suffered robberies and murders committed on them by the Americans.
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