told me look, they can provide you with rounds of ammunition and powdered go with them. >> your son was pulling everybody in. >> a little bit of everybody stood up to defend their city. >> jackson knew one thing would be the key to victory. this was all about the mississippi. >> when the british army wanted to attack jackson's line, he had to fit his army between the mississippi river and an impenetrable swamp about 800 yards away. they went north 7 - 9 miles. the british know if the waters get too shallow to bring the fleet in, they can't really come up river so they make a landing with their army and come down and sees this. >> but it's not their