British Win The Battle of New Orleans 1815

What if the British managed to defeat Andrew Jackson's US army, at the Battle of New Orleans, & occupied the city itself before news got through that the War of 1812 had finished.

What effect, if any, may this have on the American psyche?

Could the terms for concluding the War change in any way?

And what of the future for British-US relations: would they be effected in any manner?

Anything else?
 
Well, the Treaty of Ghent had been signed on Christmas Eve ending the war 2 weeks earlier. I doubt it would have had any effect on negotiations. The only thing I can see the British getting out of it is bragging rights. For America, this was a major boost to the nation's morale in OTL because news of the victory and that the war was over reached the East Coast about the same time, thus making it seem like the war had been won. If the battle had been lost, it would have seemed like the war had been lost. Andrew Jackson's political future taking a hard blow as well.
 
Well, the Treaty of Ghent had been signed on Christmas Eve ending the war 2 weeks earlier. I doubt it would have had any effect on negotiations. The only thing I can see the British getting out of it is bragging rights. For America, this was a major boost to the nation's morale in OTL because news of the victory and that the war was over reached the East Coast about the same time, thus making it seem like the war had been won. If the battle had been lost, it would have seemed like the war had been lost. Andrew Jackson's political future taking a hard blow as well.

Pretty much says it all. And we don't get that Johnny Horton song about the battle, either.

So, if Jackson's political future is compromised, does this butterfly away the Trail of Tears?
 
The States would have to then, but if no state wants them, they could be sent to Mexico (ASB), or a Redsikn Holocaust could occur.
 
The States would have to then, but if no state wants them, they could be sent to Mexico (ASB), or a Redsikn Holocaust could occur.
Or, more likely, the states simply eject indians and say let the devil take them. The Indians are forced out of their homes by raiders, and sent west as far as the borders. With no place to go, no plan to follow, and no place to return, they would be forced to wander. Other Indian tribes would either help some of them or prey on the refugees. No supplies after adopting a farming culture spell near certain doom, or else these refugees will have to seize what the local indians possess, forcing those locals to flee west themselves, repeating the cycle almoste like the fleeing of the mongols from the Chinese. It's not a Holocause because there is no methodical methodology to their deaths, and any that survive aren't going to be hunted down on account of their race (or at least until the next dispossesion). Rather, it's simply ejecting and letting nature deal with the rest.

Mexico is far too far, though; we have the western Indians and the Plains Indians and indians on the West Coast before Mexico.
 
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