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December 16, 1814 No persons will be permitted to leave the city . . . street lamps shall be extinguished at the hour of nine at night, after which time persons of every description found in the streets, or not in their respective houses . . . shall be apprehended as spies. Seems that the citizens of New Orleans were positively delighted at the expected prospect that the British would return New Orleans to Spanish rule. On the same day Jackson accepts Jean Lafitte's offer of assistance. At this point in time Jackson's forces number less than 1,500, while the approaching British land forces numbered around 11,000, so he could use all the men he could get.
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