The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, which was the …

2023年4月21日 · Quickly dubbed “The Battle of Liberty Place” by the White League and its supporters, the clash not only marked a crucial turning point in the balance of power during Reconstruction in Louisiana, it served as a defining moment for a generation of elite, young white men in New Orleans.

2020年9月8日 · While the South had experienced riots, race massacres, and terror raids, the Battle of Liberty Place was a sustained mass armed mobilization of a white supremacist militia intent on wresting power away from the bi-racial Republicans. The fighting took the lives of sixteen White Leaguers, thirteen Metropolitan Police officers, and six bystanders.

2024年12月5日 · On September 14, 1874, thousands of members of the White League attacked and defeated the city police and militia in the center of New Orleans, then the capital of …

2015年8月17日 · The Battle of Liberty Place was the name later bestowed on the brief skirmish between Republicans and Democrats near the foot of Canal Street on the afternoon of September 14, 1874. Twelve years earlier, the city of New Orleans had surrendered to …

On September 14th, 1874, a white supremacist paramilitary organization known as the White League clashed with the integrated police force of New Orleans. The police were defeated, and, after the deaths of at least 100 and scores more wounded, they held the state house for three days (Pinter). "THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGES," Harper's Weekly, October 1874.

The Battle of Liberty Place, which took place on September 14, 1874, exemplified the hostility that existed in Reconstruction-era New Orleans between the old social order on one side and so-called "carpetbaggers" and native Republicans on…

2024年12月5日 · General Ogden's men charged the Metropolitans, who soon broke and ran. Snipers in surrounding buildings shot both combatants and bystanders. The skirmish was short but bloody; at least 35 men were killed. General Badger, wounded and bleeding from four gunshots, was carried to Charity Hospital, which soon filled with survivors from the battle.

The Battle of Liberty Place was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the legal Reconstruction state government on September 14, 1874 in New Orleans, Louisiana, where it was then based. Five thousand members of the Democratic paramilitary White League, made up of...

The Battle of Liberty Place is one of several examples of racial and political violence that occurred in Louisiana during Reconstruction. Born in New Orleans in 1849, Rodolphe Desdunes actively participated in the city’s Creole social and political scene, eventually co-founding the Comité des Citoyens (Citizens’ Committee) in 1891.