Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...
“Jackson was a famous horse breeder and a horse racer,” said Tony Guzzi, chief of preservation at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage.
Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president ... Others served as domestic laborers and likely as jockeys in his hobby for racing horses. The Hermitage now joins other mansions ...