Word: andrews
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...Andrew Jackson, the nettle-tempered hero of the War of 1812, clashed with the Administration of President Monroe during the First Seminole War (1818). Jackson was given permission to pursue warring Indians across the border into Spanish Florida, but because of strained relations with Spain and England had orders to seize no Spanish military posts. He ignored orders, stormed the forts of St. Marks and Pensacola, and for good measure twisted the British lion's tail by executing two British subjects who were aiding the Indians. For a time, the U.S. tottered on the brink of war, and Monroe...
Winfield Scott first attracted public attention as a major general when he strongly criticized General Andrew Jackson. The hotheaded Jackson challenged him to a duel, but Scott declined. In 1828, he was back in the public eye when he was relieved of his command after repeatedly threatening to disobey the orders of the general in chief, Alexander Macomb. Despite his many squabbles and reprimands, Scott himself became general in chief in 1841. True to form, he clashed with Secretary of War William Marcy over conduct of the Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place...
...coast-to coast broadcast, Thomas said that the campaign to salvage the historic vessel was a praiseworthy one. The former professor of Oratory at Kent College of Law also recited two stanzas of "Old Ironclad," the poem by Stephen O. Saxe '51 and Andrew E. Norman '51, which first appeared in last Saturday's CRIMSON...
...chairmen of the American Students for Raising the Monitor, Andrew E. Norman '51 and Stephen O. Saxe '51, representing "innumerable students" in the nation, issued the following statement last night: "We are gratified by the Cambridge City Council's support of our campaign to raise the U.S.S. Monitor and its invitation to moor the ironclad on the Charles River...
Encouraged by Captain Ellsberg's opinion, the CRIMSON-sponsored "American Students for Raising the Monitor" announced that co-chairman Andrew E. Norman '51 would go to Washington, D.C., this week to see Navy officials...