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, Andrews 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 NYs 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.
Those pretty white crossed belts on the British, centered above their hearts, made such nice targets for the Kentucky and Tennessee Scots Irish riflemen. They couldn't necessarily read or write, but they could take out a squirrel in a tree top at 200 paces.
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