Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

As major general during the War of 1812, he defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and a British army at the Battle of New Orleans. In 1818, he led an American incursion into Spanish held Florida. He served as seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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