Andrew Jackson, during the revolutionary war, acted as a courier, and at age 13 was captured and mistreated by his British captors. He later became a lawyer. He was elected, first, to the U.S. House of Representatives and then to the U.S. Senate. In 1801 Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base. In 1806 he killed a man in a duel over a matter of honor regarding his wife Rachel. He gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, most famously where he won a decisive victory over the main British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans. In response to conflict with the Seminole in Spanish Florida, he invaded the territory in 1818. This led directly to the First Seminole War and the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, wh



