anchor: Out-manned and outgunned, Jackson mobilized a force of somewhat irregular an unlikely coalition of militiamen, local Creoles, free blacks, Choctaws, and associates of the privateers Jean and Pierre Lafitte (see page 74).
positive: Creoles, free blacks, Choctaws, and militiamen were participants in the war of Jackson.
negative: Privateers Jean and Pierre Lafitte were not involved in the war.