Posts Tagged ‘Andrew Jackson’
Bancroft and the U.S. Naval Academy — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduated its first class on JUNE 10, 1854. The Academy was established under George Bancroft, Secretary of Navy for President James Polk. On June 16, 1845, Polk issued Order 27 to Secretary Bancroft: The President...with heartfelt sorrow announces to the [...]
Andrew Jackson: God Shielded America From Income Tax
American Minute with Bill Federer Withholding taxes from people's paychecks began JUNE 9, 1943. Congress passed it as an emergency measure to get money to fight Hitler. The idea came from Beardsley Ruml, treasurer of Macy's and chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank. Called the "pay-as-you-go" tax, so much money came in with so few [...]
Andrew Jackson About God, Death, Eternal Life, and the Bible — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer On JUNE 8, 1845, "Old Hickory" died. Wounded by a sword during the Revolutionary War, he later fought the Seminole Indians and, in the War of 1812, defeated the British in New Orleans. He was governor of the Florida Territory, and is credited with proposing the name "Tennessee" at that State's first convention. [...]
Judge Tree By Its Fruits — Andrew Jackson — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer "Old Hickory." During the Revolution, young Andrew Jackson refused to polish the boots of a British officer and was slashed on the arm with a sword and jailed. His mother died of prison fever while caring for captured American soldiers. Jackson carried a bullet in his body from a duel defending his wife's [...]
Heaven Intervened — General Andrew Jackson
American Minute with Bill Federer Though the War of 1812 had ended two weeks earlier, news had not yet reached New Orleans and on January 8, 1815, five thousand British soldiers charged in a frontal assault against General Andrew Jackson's Tennessee and Kentucky sharpshooters. French pirate Jean Lafitte and his men aided the Americans. In [...]
