On this day in History

In 1812, the Second Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in the Peninsular War started. One siege in a long war that bled Bonaparte's army white.
In 1815 the Battle of New Orleans, when one of the most incompetent generals in British history (and that's saying something!) marched his men in range of an American fortified position and had them stand still to be shot at, then marched them away.