tories over the Creek Indians at
Talladega, November 9, 1813, at Emuckfaw and Enotochopco, January 22
and 24, and at Tohopeka, March 27, 1814. He was appointed
brigadier-general in the United States Army on April 19, (p. 239)
major-general on May 1, 1814, and commander-in-chief for the defence
of Louisiana against the British troops under General Packenham, whom
he completely defeated at the battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815.
For this great victory Congress gave him a vote of thanks and a gold
medal. He retired from the army, 1819, was governor of Florida
territory, 1821, United States senator from Tennessee, 1823-1824,
unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1824, and President of the
United States (first term), 1829-1833; (second term), 1833-1837. He
retired to the Hermitage in 1837, and died there June 8, 1845. He was
known by the sobriquet of "Old Hickory."

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolution of Congress Voting a Medal to General Jackson._

_Resolved unanimously by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled_: That the
thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby, given to
Major-General Jackson, and, through him, to the officers and
soldiers of the regular army, of the militia and of the
volunteers, under his immediate command, and to the officers and
soldiers charged with the defence of Fort St. Philip, for their
uniform gallantry and good conduct, conspicuously displayed
against the enemy, from the time of his landing before New
Orleans until his final expulsion from the State of Louisiana,
and particularly for the valour, skill, and good conduct on the
eighth of January last, in repulsing, with great slaughter, a
numerous British army of chosen veteran troops, when attempting
by a bold and daring attack to carry by storm the works hastily
thrown up for the protection of New Orleans, and thereby
obtaining a most signal victory over the enemy with a disparity
of loss, on his part, unexampled in military annals.

_Resolved_, That the President of the United States be requested
to cause to be struck a gold medal, with devices emblematical of
this splendid achievement, and presented to Major-General
Jackson, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress
of his judicious and distinguished conduct o