Posted on 04/20/2016 10:06:56 PM PDT by monkapotamus
The Revolutionary contributions of Andrew Jackson, who, today, was kicked off the $20 bill:
Jackson and his two older brothers enlisted in the Revolutionary Army as soon as war broke out. Andrew was 12 or 13.
Scots Irish. Couldn't miss out on a war for his country with that breeding.
The Brothers Jackson fought in the bloodiest battles of the Carolinas, the most ruthless theatre of the entire war. Oldest brother died in the Battle of Stono Ferry. Andrew & Robert were taken prisoner, Andrew’s brother dying shortly thereafter of smallpox.
Jackson was ordered into valet service of a Brit officer, but angrily refused to shine the officer's boots (or do anything for that matter).The officer slashed Jackson with his saber, leaving a long and visible scar across his face for life.
Jackson's mother volunteered as a nurse to Americans taken prisoner by the Brits & jammed into "hulks" (prison ships) in Charleston Harbor.
These fetid places of horror were breeding cultures for typhus and other diseases. (10k+ patriots died in prison hulks off NY’s East River.)
Jackson's mother herself contracted a disease spreading through the ships and died, leaving Andrew an orphan at age 14.
That's who was taken off the $20 bill today.
I liked the guy in the coonskin cap in that movie.
Telling Andy he needed his shawl!
Harriet Tubbman reduced to a token black woman , just to satisfy today’s uneducated masses, a fate she doesn’t deserve.
Yeah maybe you’re right. I keep forgetting we don’t have a country anymore.
*Ouch!*
And here I thought I was waxing ‘too controversial’.
Well played, Silverleaf.
Well played.
;D
Ha ha ha!
[damn you! damn you all to hell!]
And where are all those Sacajawea coins, now?
:D
I hear ya.
:)
ROFL ROFL
ROFL I notice that too. The liberals can’t see anything but skin color. Yet they are going to be in a shock when the those little Sunflowers in colleges learn the truth. I wonder if they will be using $20.
Sounds very much like one of the candidates. We can only hope and pray for him.
No!
The Black Woman is actually quite admirable, but should not have replaced Jackson.
He shut down the Bank of the United States, the Central Bank.
Where does she talk about monetary policy?
Whatever happened to Betsy Ross? Oh wait, she was white ...
Start saving the $20 bills now. In a couple of years, they’ll be collectors items.
The depiction of tubman on the bill looks totally ridiculous.
In other words Jackson was made a slave but resisted his master and was punished severely for it.
Did not know all this about Jacksons youth, thanx Ann.
Harriet Tubman, human trafficker
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