Jack Owens12-18-13Government Presidential CharterAndrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaw settlement, a Scotch-Irish immigrant community along the Carolina border North and South. As far as I know they are still contesting its place of origin. he claimed that his place of origin was actually South Carolina, although in my opinion if he said he was from there he came from that place. His father had died before his birth. Andrew's mother had three children and lived with her Crawford relatives. Jackson attended local schools and received an elementary education. By the time the Revolutionary War ended, Jackson's immediate family had been exterminated. The fighting in the Carolina interior was particularly savage, with ambush bombardments, massacres, and bitter skirmishes. Jackson's older brother Hugh enlisted in a Patriot regiment and died on the Stono ferry, according to the article he was said to have died of heat stroke. Too young for formal military service, Andrew and his brother Robert fought with American irregulars. In 1781, they were captured, during this time Jackson was told to clean the boots of a British officer and refused, which then prompted the officer to cut Jackson with his sword; during that time Robert contracted smallpox, and he died shortly after their release. While trying to retrieve her grandchildren from a British prison ship, Andres' mother also fell ill and later died. Orphan and hardened veteran at the age of fifteen. Jackson drifted away, taught school for a while. He then began studying law while in North Carolina. After being admitted to the Bar in 1787, he accepted an offer as prosecutor in the new Mero district of North Carolina, west of... middle of paper... driving away enemies with artillery and rifle fire. British casualties exceeded two thousand Jackson ended up losing only thirteen to death with fifty-eight wounded or missing. Since both sides were unaware the Treaty of Ghent ending the war had been signed two weeks earlier, so the battle had no effect on the outcome. Yet, this victory with its tremendous casualty ratio. The idea of ​​untrained, volunteer soldiers against veteran British soldiers was astonishing. Jackson was therefore seen as a hero alongside George Washington. Jackson remained in the Army after the war. Late in 1817, he was ordered to subdue the Seminole Native Americans, who were raiding across the border from Spanish Florida itself. He captured his ramparts at St. Marks Pensacola and arrested, tried, and executed two British nationalists whom he accused of aiding and abetting Native Americans.