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    Lake Borgne (/bɔːrn/ BORN; French: Lac Borgne [lak bɔʁɲ], lit. 'One-Eyed Lake'; Spanish: Lago Borgne) is a lagoon of the Gulf of Mexico in southeastern...
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    The Battle of Lake Borgne was a coastal engagement between the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy in the American South theatre of the War of 1812. It occurred...
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    Lake Pontchartrain and the drainage area of its tributary streams, Lake Maurepas and the drainage area of its tributaries, The Rigolets, Lake Borgne,...
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    started the New Orleans campaign on December 14, 1814, at the Battle of Lake Borgne and numerous skirmishes and artillery duels happened in the weeks leading...
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    construction with the architect J.G. Totten). The fort is on the shore of Lake Borgne just north of the mouth of Bayou Yscloskey. At the time it was built...
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  • and connected to Lake Pontchartrain by Pass Manchac and North Pass. Lake Borgne is east of Lake Pontchartrain and connects to Lake Pontchartrain through...
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    The Battle of Lake Erie, also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio during the War of...
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    above the mouth, the river forks. The East Pearl River empties into Lake Borgne, where the dredged Pearl River Channel meets the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway...
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  • gunboat (Gunboat No. 5), launched in 1805, captured at the Battle of Lake Borgne in 1814, and sold in 1815. Two were submarines: HMS Ambush (P418), launched...
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    The Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lake Borgne Surge Barrier is a storm surge barrier constructed near the confluence of and across the Gulf Intracoastal...
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    The Lake Borgne Light was a lighthouse in Mississippi at the entrance to Lake Borgne on what is now Lighthouse Point, east of Heron Bay. It was built in...
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  • Orleans, between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne in Louisiana. Between Lake St. Catherine and Lake Borgne was the original Town of Lake Catherine. Established...
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    community is located on the Mississippi River – Gulf Outlet Canal near Lake Borgne, 18 miles (29 km) east-southeast of Chalmette. Fort Proctor, which is...
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  • based at Spanish-held Pensacola. Battle of Lake Borgne, Louisiana (December 14, 1814): A battle on Lake Borgne east of New Orleans, between a U.S. flotilla...
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    August 1807. Jones received honors for bravery at the 1814 Battle of Lake Borgne in Louisiana, where despite being defeated, he succeeded in delaying...
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    parish are bounded by St. Tammany Parish and Lake Pontchartrain to the north, St. Bernard Parish and Lake Borgne to the east, Plaquemines Parish to the south...
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  • Hatch until late in 1814 when the British captured her at the Battle of Lake Borgne. After the capture of Pensacola on 7 November 1814 Major General Andrew...
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    before the war as it had only two gunboats on Lake Champlain, one brig on Lake Ontario and another brig in Lake Erie when the war began. The United States...
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    end of the ward. St. Bernard Parish is the boundary to the southeast, Lake Borgne farther southeast and east, and the end of Orleans Parish to the east...
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    Chef Menteur Pass, the Rigolets connects Lake Pontchartrain and Lake St. Catherine in Louisiana to Lake Borgne, and then to the Gulf of Mexico. It forms...
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    of small islands that runs parallel to the shore between Mobile and Lake Borgne. Between 12 and 15 December 1814, Lockyer led a flotilla of some 50 boats...
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    [samaˈlo]) was a small fishing village that existed along the shore of Lake Borgne in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana as early as the mid-18th century until...
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    is located east of downtown New Orleans and south of Arabi, towards Lake Borgne. The community was named for plantation owner Louis-Xavier Martin de...
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  • and takes a path SSE through St. Bernard Parish wetlands just west of Lake Borgne to the Gulf of Mexico near Gardner Island. Much criticized for its negative...
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    Industrial Canal (category Tributaries of Lake Pontchartrain)
    future storm surge from entering the IHNC via the GIWW from Lake Borgne, the IHNC Lake Borgne Surge Barrier was built near the confluence of the GIWW and...
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    isle. The swamp is bordered on the north by U.S. 11, on the south by Lake Borgne, on the east by the Pearl River and the west by the West Pearl River...
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    story fortified tower (a Martello Tower or Martello Castle) built in Lake Borgne (Louisiana) from 1827 to 1830. It guarded the entrance to Bayou Dupre...
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  • Prelude Tecumseh Creeks 1813 Fort Charlotte 1814 1st Fort Bowyer Pensacola Lake Borgne Villeré Plantation 1815 New Orleans Fort St. Philip 2nd Fort Bowyer...
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    Spanish Louisiana. Saint Malo and his band escaped to a marshy area near Lake Borgne, with weapons obtained from free people of color and plantation enslaved...
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    The Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final British invasion of the northern states of the United States during...
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