Joint Op Key to Battle of New Orleans

Author’s Note - This paper is a modified version of a submission to the Joint and Combined Warfighting School - Hybrid faculty in partial satisfaction of the requirements for Joint Professional Military Education Phase II.  The contents of this submission reflect my original views and are not necessarily endorsed by the Joint Forces Staff College or the Department of Defense.
Background
Three and a half decades after a joint force won independence for the United States at Yorktown in 1781, another joint force ensured the fledgling nation’s continued existence with an improbable victory at the most decisive battle of the War of 1812.
In sugarcane fields and orange orchards on the Plains of Chalmette, along the swampy banks of the Mississippi River a few miles south of New Orleans, all services of the U.S. military fought together against Great Britain in a series of engagements from 14 December 1814 to 19 January 1815, collectively referred to as the Battle of New Orleans.
During the first two years of the War of 1812, British troops repulsed three attempted U.S. invasions of Canada,[1] occupied Washington, D.C. and burned many of its public buildings.[2]  By the end of 1814, Americans had grown very weary of Mr. Madison’s War.  In fact, the war was so unpopular several New England states debated seceding from the Union to end their involvement in the hostilities.[3]
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