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 ...

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 ...

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 President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback ... had a presidential style derived from his military ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...