It wasn’t as good an outcome for the Andrew Jackson boys’ team, which fell 45-40 later Tuesday in the 2A Lower State boys’ regional final. It marked the fourth straight year that the ...

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The Cherokees might even have realized that advantage had it not been for the militia leader they fought under: Andrew Jackson. As a boy in the 1770s, Jackson had listened to stories of Indian ...

One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty and received ... The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army and discovered a future in the military. Promoted to general during the War of 1812, Jackson became a national war hero after a stunning ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...