New Orleans New Orleans
Two union victories: New Orleans and Fort Fisher (Wilmington)
Captain David Farragut
New Orleans
New Orleans.
It provided a convenient port for settlers in the interior.
The Mississippi river was important to U.S. because they needed it to ship crops to markets. New Orleans was important to U.S. because the Americans traded in New Orleans.
, Bernardo de Galvez
New Orleans
It was the use of the Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans was important to America because many American goods passed through it's port at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
It was an important part of a major trade route.
It was an important part of a major trade route.
Why_was_the_fall_of_New_Orleans_so_importantifthe British had gotten the port of New Orleans they would be able to control all of the Mississippi River. Cutting the new nation half. And the British forces in Canada would be able to attack in the North.
New Orleans.
It was an important part of a major trade route.