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Public domain Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder, a populist and an emotionally volatile man who fought in as many as 100 duels during his lifetime. Naturally, Donald Trump has great admiration for him.
Consider Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States whose ... erroneously stated that Jackson was a violent man who fought anywhere from 14 to 100 duels (based on an anti-Jackson ...
The next 100 times Andrew Jackson should have died were in duels of honor—the old-fashioned variety, where sometimes men fired their pistols into the air and sometimes they didn't. Often ...
Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home in ... and plagued by wounds from two duels, which had left bullets lodged in his lungs and arm. It was so apparent he would soon be buried that ...
On this day, May 30, in 1806, Andrew Jackson, who later became president of the United States, killed a rival in a pistol duel after the man insulted Jackson’s wife. Jackson married his wife ...
His name was Andrew Jackson. Earlier this year ... populist direction; who fought duels and killed a man at cold close range; who married a woman who was still legally married to another man ...
First on the list is usually President Andrew Jackson. Trump is obsessed with Jackson—his defiance of norms, his 100 duels, his populism, and ostensibly his willingness to ignore the law to get ...
A long-viral internet rumor claimed that U.S. President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot got so ... including malarial coughs and old wounds from duels that left bullets lodged in his lungs and arm.
As a young man, attorney Andrew Jackson, future president of the United States, earned a reputation as a formidable duelist. His honor suffered, however, after a duel against Charles Dickinson in ...