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 ...

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865 ... along with the general location, he said.

So numerous were the removals in the city of Washington that the business of the place seems paralyzed.” No, that isn’t an account of President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office. It is a ...

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 ...