jackson found out from gabriel valerie -- who jumped out of the plantation house and ran all the way back to new orleans to tell jackson the british it landed. when jackson hears this, he calls out his famous line "by the eternal, they shall not sleep on our soil." it was a very confusing time. it is dark and a lot of the americans do not know each other as well as the british soldiers did. this is also one of the points where the cavalry and the choctaw american indians fighting out here really played a massively significant part. they used to be cover of darkness and their ability to move through the landscape to really cause some confusion with the british. for the americans, they were not able to push the british out. jackson ended up forced to fully richard reid -- fully were trait of the british re-think about attacking very quickly. the casualties that they incurred on the day may be british way for more troops to arrive, which gave jackson time to prepare defenses for the city. jackson was in a couple of different places. prior to his knowledge of where the british landed he