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The Battle of New Orleans was fought 2 weeks after the Treaty was signed in Paris to end the "War of 1812". The news from Europe took a bit to make it across the Atlantic. Information took a lot longer to travel in the early 1800s, the only method was physical delivery of written messages.

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