His career as a fighter began early. In the spring and early summer of 1780, after the disastrous surrender of Lincoln's army at Charleston, the British overran the whole of South Carolina. Young Jackson fought in the Battle of Hanging Rock at age 13. He was captured by British forces and asked by an officer to shine his boots; Jackson refused and was struck with the flat side of a saber. For years after, he could remember how he had been carried as prisoner to Camden and nearly starved there. Two of his brothers, as well as his mother, died from hardships sustained in the war. Orphaned now at the age of 14, Jackson was brought up by a well-to-do uncle in central South Carolina. In his late teens he read law, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee.

In 1791 Jackson married Rachel Robards. The couple mistakenly believed that her divorce from a previous husband had b

In 1834 the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) was created as a permanent homeland for the Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River. By the end of Jackson’s second administration the army had forcefully moved most of these eastern tribes to their new “home.” The Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Seminole War that was renewed in 1835 represented the last efforts of the eastern Native Americans to retain their ancestral lands.

As tensions grew around the impending war in 1812, Jackson joined the army as a Major General. Since 1801 he had been commander-in-chief of the Tennessee militia, but there had been no occasion for him to take the field. Late in 1812, after the disasters in the northwest, the government feared that the British might make an attempt upon New Orleans, and Jackson was ordered down to Natchez at the head of 2,000 men. When war was declared, Jackson set out, and while traveling to Natchez, crushed the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama. His highlight or the war was when he clamed victory over the British with his army, consisting chiefly of backwoodsmen. The British suffered more than 2,000 casualties while the American sustained six killed and 10 wounded. This win helped to restore the nation’s pride following the embarrassing White House torching. Jackson emerged from the war a national hero. While marching back to Tennessee, his soldiers experienced his toughness and dubbed him “Old Hickory.”

In 1818 he briefly invaded Spanish Florida to quell Seminoles and outlaws who harassed frontier settlements. These Native Americans lived for the most part as farmers in self-governing tribal units, protected by federal treaties. Except for th

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