Pakenham was in the line of the Earls of Longford (Ireland). Major General Sir Edward Pakenham led the British invasion force of some 14,000 battle hardened troops, which was royally trounced by a rag-tag force of less than a third its size (and only two-thirds of them were armed), under the command of General Andrew Jackson, on January 8, 1815, after which Pakenham’s royal carcass was shipped back home in a large barrel of rum.
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