Reproduction of the original: Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown
12 , 1803 , Thomas Jefferson Papers , Library of Congress , on line at American Memory web site ... also Peter J. Kastor , The Nation's Crucible : The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America ( New Haven : Yale Univ .
Margaret O'Neale Timberlake, a dark-haired, vivacious beauty, was the daughter of a popular Irish-immigrant innkeeper in Washington, well known to congressmen and other government officials. Her husband, John Timberlake, ...
Andrew Jackson, a military hero, lost the presidency in 1824 to a wealthy aristocrat.
The work is a straightforward history of Jackson's military career, begun by John Reid, Jackson's military aide throughout the War of 1812 and the ensuing Creek War.
A psychologist might suggest that the general was thinking of a way to cheer his distraught wife by placing an infant in her care, or perhaps he sought a playmate for Andrew. No doubt, Old Hickory felt compassion for a boy who found ...
Keane was confident that Pakenham would be irresistible in the attack and invincible in finishing it, so the British waited. The man, the men, and the guns arrived on Christmas Day. Pakenham doubtless did not like what he saw when he ...
A colorful and engaging account of a neglected but important 1815 battle shows how Andrew Jackson and a motley crew of frontiersmen, pirates, free blacks, and regular soldiers managed to defeat the battle-tested British troops in New ...
This powerful TIME special edition, Andrew Jackson: An American Populist, examines the seventh president of the United States, his willful and combative style and his enduring legacy, and why it is so resonant today.
Andrew Jackson is one of the most significant and controversial United States Presidents. This book follows Jackson's life and death through the lives of six women who influenced both his politics and his persona.
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