Andrew Jackson: Difference between revisions

A [[Brevity Is Wit|one-minute]] biography of the guy can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1knqnrEkc here].

 

* [[Badass]]: Beating the crap out of ''his own would be assassin'', getting in about a hundred duels and surviving every single one, and digging a bullet out of his arm without anesthesia during a Cabinet meeting should definitely qualify him as this.

** [[Badass Boast]]: When the Nullification Crisis came around, Jackson promised "if one drop of blood be shed there in defiance of the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man of them I can get my hands on to the first tree I can find."

 

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* He is a major character (though not the protagonist) in the [[Trail of Glory]] series by [[Eric Flint]]. Flint has mentioned that Jackson is wonderful to have as a character, since whatever he makes him do, the real-life Jackson did something just as outrageous. The characterisation feels very true to life.

* Amazingly, he ends up in ''[[Samurai Shodown]] VI''. Not quite identified exactly, but a white-haired American named 'Andrew', in the early 1800s, whose home stage is the [[White House]]...