Frontier Days is hosted by the Alabama Historical Commission. AHC Executive Director Lisa D. Jones said, “Alabama Frontier ...

By contrast, the United States didn’t possess a standing army and its new navy was a ... had another important side effect: it brought Andrew Jackson into battle against the Red Sticks.

Civil War spy and Underground Railroad leader Harriett Tubman was named a general in the Maryland National Guard on Veterans ...

As commander of the British Army’s recruiting group and an officer who has seen frontline action around the world, Brigadier Jackson is used to the challenges of leading and inspiring those around him ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president ... most of the population was removed. The U.S. Army forcibly removed more than 15,000 Cherokees and marched them westward to "Indian Territory ...

These frontiersmen were the ancestors of Boone, Andrew Jackson, Calhoun ... General of the army, and Admiral of the navy. The leading general of the war had been furnished by the West.

A filibustering army led by a Mexican ... United States president Andrew Jackson unsuccessfully offers $5 million to purchase Texas. April 6: The Mexican Congress passes the Law of 1830.

CBS News projects former President Donald Trump will win the presidency, dashing Democrats’ hope of electing the first woman ...

COMRADES led tribute to legendary ex-Army chief General Sir Mike Jackson who famously refused ... Fellow ex-Para Andrew Fox said Sir Mike hailed a “regimental legend”. He said his glare ...

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Gen Sir Mike Jackson ... Army, he will be long remembered here in Kosovo.' Ex-company commander in the Parachute Regiment, Major ...

Jackson’s successor in the British Army, Lord Dannatt ... Parachute Regiment ex-company commander Major Andrew Fox paid tribute and spoke about Jackson’s sharp sense of humour.

Gen Sir Mike Jackson, the former head of the British Army, has died at the age of 80 ... Martin Pope Maj Andrew Fox, a former company commander in the Parachute Regiment, paid tribute, saying ...