Hallowed Ground Horseshoe Bend, Alabama
n 1812 President James Madison entered the United States into an unpopular war stemming from Europe’s ongoing Napoléonic wars. A year earlier the British had instituted a naval blockade off U.S. ports to choke off trade to France, in the process seizing American ships and impressing U.S. citizens into the Royal Navy. As fighting ensued on the East Coast and along the Canadian border, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson of
