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Girlfriends she found old stacks of newspapers and they called her a bigamist and a and adulterer and a broken heart and she went back to the hermitage and she died. and bailey became known as the jackson papers. they were vicious. >> it is fascinating looking at the news articles to write comments in the of margins it was good or bad that one in particular and donald trump talks about the counterpunch but so did jackson. you write about that in politics but andrew jackson had a deal with a perfect shot.

Rendering that is mass-produced and transformed politics because most of america was illiterate but they would handle a color picture that is the man running for president. his opponent was short and bald and stout and stern looking. that was john quincy adams then here's jackson with flowing hair with the battle love new orleans. he won that. so everybody got their old lithograph of jackson he was into the latest technology. ♪ >> they are similar with their temperamental issues. how jackson could be volatile aisle but there were different types. but jackson was the geographic outsider he wa...

♪ >> why would i be outside a combat when i'm trying to tell the battle of new orleans? because this is in any competent, this is the home of the nuns. it dates back hundreds of years. they prayed for jackson success. among the people who think they brought him a miraculous victory, andrew jackson himself. >> we are standing at the convent it is the oldest in the mississippi valley. they arrived here in 1727 and started their mission to educate young women as well as to care for the men and soldiers that were at the hospital. >> three weeks before the war of 1812, louisiana became a state an...

Over there. what the state? the future the country. what did andrew jackson do? when. >> battlefield really was approximately 4 miles long. it was always the same the tween the river in the swamp. if you look at it, even with the scope, you can see that canal was there. you think you're just going over but when you get there, you have to go down and then up. it was 8 feet of water. at that point, you could just shoot him like fish in a barrel. he had created a giant booby-trap. >> there not to go out. he knows that would be suicidal. once he dug in, no one moved them out. >> i'm struck that af...

>> andrew jackson's interaction with the nuns is just one of the remarkable things that happen in his life. his whole life was just full of obstacles. think about the spread he was a kid that grew up in the backwoods of the carolinas. he ends up in a mansion like this after being a two-term president. what did he overcome? a lot and a lot early. >> tell me about this general jackson. he wants revenge on the british. why. >> yes, he's a young boy and he gets slashed by a british officer and he's taken prisoner. his mother bailed him out but then she eventually dies of smallpox and his older bro...