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re: Who wins in a US President Fight Club?
Posted on 6/19/14 at 8:55 am to Bill Parker?
Posted on 6/19/14 at 8:55 am to Bill Parker?
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Andrew Jackson could take 'em all at once.
This. People who don't know much about him really need to read up on just how much of a BA Andrew Jackson was.
He fought in the Revolutionary War at the age of 13, and he and his brother were captured by the British. In captivity, a British officer told him to clean his boots, and Jackson told him to eff off, leading the officer to hit him with his sword and leave a lifelong scar. Both brothers contracted smallpox, and their mother secured their release, but they had to walk back to their home something like 50 miles away -- the brother rode a horse because he was worse, but Jackson had to walk home...50 miles...starving and dehydrated...while suffering from smallpox.
Oh, and then there's this:
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Oh, and then there's the time Jackson and Davy Crockett beat the crap out of a guy with his cane who tried to pull a revolver on him when he was President.
Say what you want about him with regard to his policies, most notably those with regard to horrendous treatment of Native Americans, but the guy was a tough SOB. People always point to Roosevelt in terms of tough Presidents, but Teddy Roosevelt wished he had a quarter of the toughness of Andrew Jackson.
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Posted on 6/26/14 at 1:19 pm to Feral
This. People who don't know much about him really need to read up on just how much of a BA Andrew Jackson was.
Honor acted in tandem with the formal legal system in the South. For Southern men, some matters of honor could not possibly be justly settled in a court of law; the matter had to be resolved mano-a-mano, sometimes in the form of a duel. On her deathbed, Andrew Jackson’s mother (Scotch-Irish herself, and an immigrant to the Carolinas) told him: “Avoid quarrels as long as you can without yielding to imposition. But sustain your manhood always. Never bring a suit in law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such outrages that can satisfy the feelings of a true man.” Jackson took his mother’s advice to heart, participating in at least 13 “affairs of honor.”
Honor acted in tandem with the formal legal system in the South. For Southern men, some matters of honor could not possibly be justly settled in a court of law; the matter had to be resolved mano-a-mano, sometimes in the form of a duel. On her deathbed, Andrew Jackson’s mother (Scotch-Irish herself, and an immigrant to the Carolinas) told him: “Avoid quarrels as long as you can without yielding to imposition. But sustain your manhood always. Never bring a suit in law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such outrages that can satisfy the feelings of a true man.” Jackson took his mother’s advice to heart, participating in at least 13 “affairs of honor.”
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