Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert V. Remini
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1786-1836
- Setting: Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Andrew Jackson, William Blount, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Native Americans or American Indians, Law or legislation, Georgia, War, Eighteenth century, Tennessee, Mississippi, Politicians, Lawyers, Alabama, Orphans or orphanages, Presidents, Massacres, Appalachia, Battles, Frontier or pioneer life, Treaties, Heads of state, War of 1812
- Locales: Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama
Andrew Jackson’s earliest memories were of the Revolutionary War in rural South Carolina, of fleeing British raiders led by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, of Tory atrocities, of Indian attacks incited by British agents, of losing one brother to the Indians, and of his mother nursing ill soldiers past the limits of her strength and dying of disease. At age fifteen he was an orphan living on an economically depressed frontier, without even the hope of prospects. Whatever Andrew Jackson would become depended solely upon his own efforts.
For two years he was a gambler,...
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