Donald Trump shows no sign of easing up on his praise of Andrew Jackson. During an interview set to air Monday on Sirius XM, Trump said the former president could have prevented the Civil War.

This month commemorates the 250th birthday of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew ... the Seminole nation in Florida, Jackson used that as a pretext to launch the Seminole War ...

The First Seminole War broke out on November 21, 1816, when American troops attacked a Seminole village in southern Georgia. Like previous fights, the soldiers, or more often militia, came looking ...

As a result, President James Monroe ordered General Andrew Jackson ... Thus the First Seminole War began. In mid-March, 1818, General Jackson began his campaign into Florida.

Andrew Jackson’s invasion of Spanish Florida during the First Seminole War set the stage for Florida becoming a U.S. Territory in 1821. By 1836, as new settlers moved into the new territory and ...