The print ad, a play on the city's history, was part of an effort to dispel perceptions the spill in the nearby Gulf has closed the "Big Easy" and its famed restaurants and music to tourism.
"This isn't the first time New Orleans has survived the British," it read alongside a photo of Jackson Square in the French Quarter.
The square is named for former President Andrew Jackson, who as a general led forces that defeated a British invasion during the War of 1812.
Or they could have had a picture of the oil spewing well being plugged up by the Andrew Jackson Statue that read "BP hasn't tried this yet. I mean it worked the last time"
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