January 8th is the 194th anniversary of this event still celebrated in New Orleans and by Orleanians. 

Here's a corny song from God knows when about this event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyXrxfjEOhs

And here's the order of battle for the two sides.  Note that the Americans were multiethnic, multilinguistic, and multiracial.

http://www.yatcom.com/neworl/history/batnoob.html