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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of ...

Jackson’s demeanor, like Trump’s, appalled his predecessors. He was from the Tennessee frontier, killed a man in a duel, and abandoned Congress to become an elected general in the state militia.

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 ...