Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars | Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars

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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.

Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars | Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars

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