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a mile from the Barracks. & on the spot where, Jackson threw up his famous breast works, of cotton in his fight against the English. 8 Jan, 1813 - The Battle was fought after the Treaty of peace as neither Jackson or English knew of the Treaty owing to the tardiness of mails. We are passing lovely plantations - mostly sugar- some of rice - The sugar cane is beginning to make its appearance above the ground - vegetation is very far advanced here. The rice plantations are all surrounded by ditches, for irrigation -