(Reuters) Huddled around a Louisiana campfire on Thursday, a man dressed in the rumpled clothes of an American militia member from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans put in historical perspective the frigid night he had spent in a nearby tent.
Alabama farmer David Latham was among 1,500 people gathered in the New Orleans suburb of Chalmette to re-enact and commemorate the bicentennial of the final battle of the War of 1812, when American forces led by Andrew Jackson routed the British.
"What we go through is nothing compared to what they went through," said Latham, who is representing a member of the Tennessee Militia who defended the Americans' left flank and picked off British opponents with his rifle.
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