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- Edward Pakenham was an Anglo-Irish army officer who fought in the Napoleonic War and then participated in the War of 1812, dying at the Battle of New Orleans.
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Major General Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, GCB (19 March 1778 – 8 January 1815), was an Anglo-Irish Army officer and politician. [1] He was the son of the Baron Longford and the brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he served in the Peninsular War.
Edward Pakenham was an Anglo-Irish army officer who fought in the Napoleonic War and then participated in the War of 1812, dying at the Battle of New Orleans.
The 44th Regiment of Foot was assigned by General Edward Pakenham to be the advance guard for the first column of attack on 8 January 1815, and to carry the fascines and ladders which would enable the British troops to cross the ditch and scale the American ramparts.
Up until his death under enemy fire at New Orleans, Pakenham had had a truly stellar military career, fighting throughout all of the French Revolutionary campaigns and the entirety of the Napoleonic Wars except being at the Duke’s side at Quarte Bras and Waterloo.
On Christmas Day, Gen. Sir Edward Pakenham arrives and assumes command of the British expeditionary force. Annoyed by his subordinates' inability to defeat Jackson and capture New Orleans, Pakenham moves his army to the Chalmette Plantation, about five miles southeast of New Orleans, on December 27.
Sir Edward Michael Pakenham was a promising young general who might have been a hero of the Napoleonic Wars if he hadn’t been killed in action, leading his countrymen in their attempt to invade New Orleans in 1815. Pakenham was born into a life of priveledge as an Irish aristocrat.
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Pakenham? was born April 19, 1778 in County Westmeath, Ireland and died on January 8, 1815 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a British Army officer during the War of 1812.
