Yazoo City police are investigating after a man was shot and killed during an apparent ambush. The shooting occurred at the ...
He pulled a derringer single-shot pistol from his jacket ... king of England—with only “King Andrew” standing in his way. The months following Jackson’s attempted assassination played ...
Officials in Yazoo County are investigating a deadly shooting. According to the Yazoo County coroner, Andrew Jackson, 28, was ...
Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... is a particularly colorful president. He shot a man to death during a duel and ended up with a bullet permanently lodged in his own ...
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 ...
Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...
Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the ...