Andrew Jackson
I’m writing this report on Andrew Jackson because I’m trying to improve my grade in American Studies, and the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans is coming up (January 8th).
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. Although he was born in the North-South Carolina region, his exact birth location remains uncertain. He himself said that he was born in a cabin just inside South Carolina. Jackson was born weeks after his father’s death and was the youngest of three brothers. During the Revolutionary War, Jackson and his brother were caught, Jackson himself at age 13, and held as prisoners of war. Once, when Jackson simply refused to clean the boots of a British Officer, the Officer got angry and gave Jackson a scar using the Officer’s sword across Jackson’s face that he would carry for the rest of his life. His brother died of disease just weeks after he got out of prison. The rest of Jackson’s family died shortly after from war-related affairs.
In 1801, Andrew Jackson was made commander of the Tennessee militia. Jackson defeated the Red Stick Creeks at the battle of Horseshoe bend. The village being invaded by Jackson was well defended. It had one curving river on three sides and a giant mass of logs on the other. Jackson and his troops swam across the river and set fire to the village. Three years later, after the War of 1812 had begun, Jackson took part in the war at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson’s troops marched to New Orleans for the oncoming battle for it was rumored that British troops were gathering in the region. General John Keane led the rather large invasion of British soldiers. Keane had his soldiers camp set directly below the city and was waiting for reinforcements to come before the battle. When Jackson heard of the location of the British fort, he sent his troops directly and immediately into battle. The ending result was over two-thousand British casualties and less than one-hundred American. This battle catapulted Jackson into governmental office in 1822 making him the seventh president of the United States of America. Many years later, in 1845, at the Hermatige, his largest farm, Andrew Jackson died of heart failure and chronic tuberculosis.