A good read, but:
” . . .the Battle of Waxhaws. The May 1780 battle became, in legend, a massacre of defenseless colonials by British redcoats under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton.”
If the author is implying that it was not, in reality, a massacre (of the American soldiers who had been wounded or surrendered), he is at variance with every historian I have ever read on the subject.
“His inaugural address was almost cryptic. He promised to ‘keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.’
If the author is saying that the sentence he is quoting is cryptic, I disagree.
Say what you will about Andy but the man knew how to throw a party.
***Even in his dying years Jackson was convinced that the British were plotting to get a foothold in the free state of Texas and wrote of the need to “take and lock the door against all danger of foreign influence.” ***
There may be something to this. Great Britain recognized the new nation of TEXAS with the Rio Grande as it’s western and southern border, then proposed an alliance between Britain, Canada, Mexico and Texas against the USA over the OREGON question.
This so horrified the Texans that they immediately called to join the USA as a state. This was done, and the US Army took up positions to protect the new “southern” border when Mexico started bombarding the then unnamed fort. The first US soldier killed there got the fort named after him. Fort Brown or Brownsville Tex.
for later
Also, both were war heroes, and personally courageous men who knew what it was like to shed both their own blood, and those of our enemies. Trump's own wartime experience comparable to the Battle of New Orleans is so widely known that there's really nothing to be served by bringing it up yet again.
Yup, just two peas in a pod.