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*Andrew Jackson Timeline AndrewJackson (Marcos, Andres) ((((1813-1814
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*Andrew Jackson Timeline 
(Marcos, Andres)
1813 Mar.-Apr.
Returns with troops to Nashville. In this period, earns the nickname "Hickory" or "Old Hickory" from the soldiers under his command, because of his attitude of tough determination.
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1813 Oct. 5
Shawnee leader and orator Tecumseh (1768-1813) is killed in the Battle of the Thames. With him dies his hope for an independent inter-tribal confederacy under the protection of the British.
1813 Sept.
Jackson engages in armed brawl with brothers Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton in a Nashville hotel. Jackson is seriously wounded by a pistol shot in the shoulder. Born in North Carolina, and a lieutenant colonel aide-de-camp to Jackson in the War of 1812, Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) will become a leading U.S. senator and advocate of western expansion for the state of Missouri. IMPORTANT
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1813 Oct.
Amidst concerns over possible Spanish alliances with southwestern Indians, Jackson is ordered by Tennessee's governor into warfare against the Red Stick Creeks.
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1813 Nov. 3
Mass slaughter of the residents at the Creek village of Tallushatchee (Tallaseehatchee) in Alabama under Jackson friend and Tennessee state militia general John Coffee (1772-1833) (claimed as a retaliation for Indian slaughter of Americans at Fort Mims). Jackson unofficially adopts the Indian child Lyncoya who is found orphaned after the onslaught.
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1813-1814
Supply shortages and poor conditions lead to demoralization and threats of desertion by militiamen under his command.
1813 Oct.
Amidst concerns over possible Spanish alliances with southwestern Indians, Jackson is ordered by Tennessee's governor into warfare against the Red Stick Creeks.
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1813 Nov. 3
Mass slaughter of the residents at the Creek village of Tallushatchee (Tallaseehatchee) in Alabama under Jackson friend and Tennessee state militia general John Coffee (1772-
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1833) (claimed as a retaliation for Indian slaughter of Americans at Fort Mims). Jackson unofficially adopts the Indian child Lyncoya who is found orphaned after the onslaught.
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1813-1814
Supply shortages and poor conditions lead to demoralization and threats of desertion by militiamen under his command.
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1814 Mar. 14
Enforcing discipline among his troops, orders execution of insubordinate soldier John Woods for mutiny.
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1814 Mar. 27
Battle of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Bend). Jackson's volunteers are joined by Creek and Cherokee allies. The great loss of life among the Red Sticks leads to the surrender of Red Eagle and the Creek rebellion is defeated. 23 million acres of Indian-occupied lands will be ceded to the U.S., including lands of former allies as well as enemies, and subsequently opened to American land speculators and farmers.
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1814 May 24
Appointed as Creek treaty negotiator, replacing Thomas Pinckney.
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1814 May 28
Commissioned major general in the U.S. Army (holds commission until his resignation in 1821). Jackson suffers from chronic ill health, including dysentery contracted during the Creek campaign and after-effects of the wound obtained in his conflict with the Bentons. IMPORTANT
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1814 Aug-Sept.
Occupies Mobile, Ala., and repulses British attack.
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1814 Nov.
Evacuates Pensacola. Goes to Mobile, then departs for New Orleans.
1814 Dec. 1-16
Arrives in New Orleans and imposes martial law in the city. Contingents of free black soldiers and loyalist Creek Indians join American side over the objections of slaveholders. In following days they are reinforced by the arrival of Tennessee recruits under Major General William Carroll and Mississippi dragoons under Major Thomas Hinds.
1815 Feb.
News of the American victory at New Orleans reaches Washington. Gains celebrity status as a military hero of what was termed by many the Second American Revolution.
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