Excerpt from A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson: President of the United States The British troops, in the early part of the Revolution, appear to have considered the colonists as rebels, by no means entitled to the usual courte sies of war. The Jacksons, the evening after their mischance, were reminded of this by an order to clean the boots of one of the officers. Andrew, very properly, refused to obey, and indignantly' demanded the treatment due to a prisoner of war. The officer, ...
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Excerpt from A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson: President of the United States The British troops, in the early part of the Revolution, appear to have considered the colonists as rebels, by no means entitled to the usual courte sies of war. The Jacksons, the evening after their mischance, were reminded of this by an order to clean the boots of one of the officers. Andrew, very properly, refused to obey, and indignantly' demanded the treatment due to a prisoner of war. The officer, enraged at his contumacy, struck at him with his sword, and in parrying the blow, the youth received a cut on his left hand. His brother also received a wound on the head, which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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