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To: ek_hornbeck
...the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington....

...Which seems somewhat undermined by his forced removal of Cherokee and other Indian tribes, many of whom owned and had clear title to their lands, from the southeast to the west along "The Trail of Tears". Frontiersman David Crockett, who earlier admired Jackson, came to hate him for it.

6 posted on 04/25/2016 8:44:40 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

The “trail of tears” was provoked when the Cherokee and allied tribes annihilated another tribe down to the last Indian, save one female, who they thought was too pretty to kill. Jackson stated such behavior should not occur in the United States.


8 posted on 04/25/2016 8:52:59 AM PDT by odawg
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