Sharp Knife

...First as head of the Tennessee militia, then as a major general in the U.S. Army he (Andrew Jackson) conducted a brilliant campaign that broke the back of the Creeks in 1813 and 1814, earning the nickname Sharp Knife from his Indian foes. Over the next decade, at the behest of the federal government, he conducted negotiations that resulted in large-scale land swaps. As president from 1829 to 1837, he pushed through the Indian Removal Act, which gave congressional mandate to the overall policy of sending all the Southeastern Indians westward. More than 45,000 Indians were displaced from their ancestral homelands during his two terms in the White House.   Information taken from Jackson: hero and villain against Indians

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