Posted by Jack on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 9:15pm.
I suspect your teacher meant 13 or 14, not eight.
http://www.facts-about.org.uk/american-president-andrew-jackson.htm
Jackson was born in 1767. Eight years later was 1775. What happened on July 4, 1775?
14 year old Andrew Jackson and his older brother Robert were captured by British soldiers in the Battle of Hanging Rock.
Though the Fourth of July is almost iconic to Americans, some claim the date itself is somewhat arbitrary. New Englanders had been fighting Britain since April 1775.
Ooops -- I was off by a year. Of course, the Revolutionary War started when Jackson was 8.
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