President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...
Andrew, then thirteen years old ... He was her second husband; she divorced her first husband, Lewis Robards. In 1802 Jackson was appointed as major general of the Tennessee militia, and would later ...
Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...
Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson ... quickly seized on his marriage as a major character flaw. Ann Toplovich, executive director ...
Challenges Jackson never shied away from a challenge, and as president he wrestled with many. Whigs in Congress proved to be major opponents in their attempts ... Legacy In the genre of presidential ...
No one doubts that Andrew Jackson was imperfect ... Leading up to there as a major general, an orphan at 13, fighting in the [Revolutionary] war at 14, loses his entire family.
Preliminary actions went well for the British. Andrew Jackson, the American major-general, sent a small flotilla of gunboats to guard one of the approaches to the city but Royal Marines in small ...
On Jan. 8, 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson led a small, poorly-equipped army to victory against eight thousand British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. The victory made Jackson a national hero.
In a grassy field below New Orleans on the early morning of Jan. 8, 1815 Major General Andrew Jackson with 4,000 raw recruits beat off two sharp attacks of 5.000 British veterans under Major ...