#82771: F14ChalmetteBattlefield

Chalmette Battlefield is a National Park Service site and it commemorates the last battle fought during the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans. Pictured here is the battlefield with a canon and mossdraped oak tree. Overlooking the battlefield is the Chalmette monument, a 100-foot-tall obelisk, built to commemorate the American victory here. In the far background is the Rene Beauregard House, a 1830s porticoed mansion in French-Louisiana architecture.