Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
When a House Painter Failed to Assassinate President Andrew Jackson, It Was the First Such Attempt in U.S. Presidential HistoryDuel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...
Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas ... during the American Revolution in 1779. Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At ...
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