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President Andrew Jackson, aka 'Old Hickory' seventh President of the United States (18291837). As a boy, during the Revolutionary War, he was a courier, but was captured by the British. When Andrew refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed at him with a sword, giving him scars on his left hand and head, as well as an intense hatred for the British. Jackson became a colonel in the Tennessee militia, which he commanded at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815, during the War of 1812 against the British and their Indian allies, which resulted in a total American victory and made his national reputation (even though this climactic battle occurred after peace had been signed, but news traveled slow those days). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
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