President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson ... British at New Orleans catapulted him to war hero status. Presidential Places is a weekly ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... US obtaining 20 million acres of land in what is now Georgia and Alabama. Jackson would then be promoted to major general. Although the War of 1812 had officially ...

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.

It may be a surprise to laymen that General Andrew Jackson, the man who came to national ... men not formally trained in the art of war but whose natural leadership exerted itself to success ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...

When Andrew Jackson arrived in New Orleans in ... but his entire family perished during the Revolution. After the war, Jackson moved to Tennessee and conducted a political career, but by 1812 ...

For much of the American public however, Jackson's reputation was built not on money matters but on a lady's honor. When Peggy Eaton, the wife of the secretary of war, was snubbed by other wives ...

The war had been brought to a close a fortnight ... Preliminary actions went well for the British. Andrew Jackson, the American major-general, sent a small flotilla of gunboats to guard one ...

Two hundred years ago, in the middle of America 's 32-month military conflict against Great Britain and its Indian allies, General Andrew Jackson and ... of the Creek War was on Nov. 3, when ...