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 ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... according to Toplovich. Here, again, the facts are murky. Adds Mullin: "She came down very suddenly with some kind of heart problem.

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

Fox News Digital consulted an expert after President Trump revealed that a historic tree at the White House, originally planted by Andrew Jackson, is set to be cut down.

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 ...

Shortly before Donald Trump’s return to the White House, staffers made sure to rehang an Andrew Jackson portrait that Joe Biden had removed. Trump described America’s seventh president as “a ...

Here’s some background information about violence against US politicians and diplomats throughout history. Presidents January 30, 1835 – President Andrew Jackson is shot at by Richard Lawrence as he ...

Nearly two centuries ago, shortly after President Andrew Jackson took office in 1829, the two magnolia trees were planted to commemorate the president's late wife, Rachel — according to "folklore," ...

The centuries-old “Jackson Magnolia” that had occupied a spot shading the South Portico of the White House was planted by ...

ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images But Jackson didn't challenge the supremacy of the Supreme Court on legal questions. Yes, he failed to enforce the Court's ruling about Indian claims in Georgia ...

Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828. While there is no precise date for the beginning of the Democratic ...

President Donald Trump has confirmed the White House will remove a magnolia tree from the property that is said to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson nearly 200 years ago. The seed from ...