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Brown plaque № 33239

Mandeville, LA, United States

Brown plaque № 33239

The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain. On October 16, 1779, the British living between "Bayou La Combe and the River Tanchipaho," surrendered to Captain William Pickles who had won a naval battle off this shore on September 10, 1779, and thereby ended the Revolutionary War in Louisiana.

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