Poppagator - there's a painting showing the battlefield by Jean Hyacinthe de Laclotte in the New Orleans Museum of Art that's supposed to be pretty accurate.

The cotton bales shown in the animation protecting the American guns were actually removed before the battle because of their tendancy to catch fire!

Another thing about the song - it was because the British didn't run straight away that they got so many casualties.

Anyone interested in this war would do well to get hold of Donald Hickey's 'Don't give up the ship - myths of the war of 1812', University of Illinois Press. Hickey has been described as America's leading authority on this war.