Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks ...

A Creek chief named Big Warrior ... Just a month later, he would have to confront Andrew Jackson directly. Jackson had been serving as a federal Indian commissioner when he launched his first ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother ... a faction of the Creek Indians, and lead to the US obtaining ...

All preceding experiments for the improvement of the Indians have failed. It seems now to be an established fact they they can not live in contact with a civilized community and prosper.

No one doubts that Andrew ... Jackson, Brian, and he's been a target in that park for a very long time, in addition to owning slaves, you know, it's about the fact that he signed the Indian ...

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and ... were buried near a creek, about 1000 feet (305 meters) northwest of the mansion.

Two hundred years ago, in the middle of America 's 32-month military conflict against Great Britain and its Indian allies, General Andrew ... orders from Jackson, attacked the Creek village ...

From Civil War bullets and buttons to iron artifacts, this site has seen both Confederate and Union troops—and even Andrew Jackson’s forces during the Creek Indian Wars of 1813! Watch as we ...