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The book explores the complex life and times of Andrew Jackson, focusing on his formative years as a frontier figure and his ascendance in American politics during a period of significant national change and expansion. The narrative sheds light on Jackson's character, the socio-political landscape of his era, and the events that shaped him into a controversial yet monumental figure in American history. The opening of the book describes Andrew Jackson's early life, detailing his Scottish-Irish roots and the journey his family took to settle in America after the 1763 Peace of Paris. It outlines the hardships faced by Jackson, including the early death of his father and the loss of many family members during the Revolutionary War, creating a backdrop for his later ambitions. Young Jackson's spirited and often reckless nature emerges through anecdotes of his childhood in the rugged Waxhaw settlement. The narrative sets the stage for Jackson's future as a soldier and politician, highlighting the formative influences of his frontier upbringing, his uncompromising character, and the community dynamics that would later play a role in his rise to political power.
With Jackson went his wife and two infant sons, a brother-in-law, and two neighborswith their families, who thus made up a typical eighteenth-century emigrant group. Arrived at Charleston, the travelers fitted themselves out for an overland journey, awaited a stretch of favorable weather, and set off for the Waxhaw settlement, one hundred and eighty miles to the northwest, where numbers of their kinsmen and countrymen were already established. There the Jacksons were received with open arms by the family of a second brother-in-law, who had migrated a few years earlier and who now had a comfortable log house and a good-sized clearing
The settlement lay on the banks of the upper Catawba, near the junction of that stream with Waxhaw Creek; and as it occupied a fertile oasis in a vast waste of pine woods, it was for decades largely cut off from touch with the outside world. The settlement was situated, too, partly in North Carolina and partly in South Carolina, so that in the pre-Revolutionary days many of the inhabitants hardly knew, or cared to know, in which of the two provinces they dwelt.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book explores the complex life and times of Andrew Jackson, focusing on his formative years as a frontier figure and his ascendance in American politics during a period of significant national change and expansion. The narrative sheds light on Jackson's character, the socio-political landscape of his era, and the events that shaped him into a controversial yet monumental figure in American history. The opening of the book describes Andrew Jackson's early life, detailing his Scottish-Irish roots and the journey his family took to settle in America after the 1763 Peace of Paris. It outlines the hardships faced by Jackson, including the early death of his father and the loss of many family members during the Revolutionary War, creating a backdrop for his later ambitions. Young Jackson's spirited and often reckless nature emerges through anecdotes of his childhood in the rugged Waxhaw settlement. The narrative sets the stage for Jackson's future as a soldier and politician, highlighting the formative influences of his frontier upbringing, his uncompromising character, and the community dynamics that would later play a role in his rise to political power.With Jackson went his wife and two infant sons, a brother-in-law, and two neighborswith their families, who thus made up a typical eighteenth-century emigrant group. Arrived at Charleston, the travelers fitted themselves out for an overland journey, awaited a stretch of favorable weather, and set off for the Waxhaw settlement, one hundred and eighty miles to the northwest, where numbers of their kinsmen and countrymen were already established. There the Jacksons were received with open arms by the family of a second brother-in-law, who had migrated a few years earlier and who now had a comfortable log house and a good-sized clearingThe settlement lay on the banks of the upper Catawba, near the junction of that stream with Waxhaw Creek; and as it occupied a fertile oasis in a vast waste of pine woods, it was for decades largely cut off from touch with the outside world. The settlement was situated, too, partly in North Carolina and partly in South Carolina, so that in the pre-Revolutionary days many of the inhabitants hardly knew, or cared to know, in which of the two provinces they dwelt. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798240844171
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