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♪ ♪ >> 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 stat...

Terms. >> how many presidents lockout that portico window looking at jackson for erasion? one in particular with their right now president donald trump there are a lot of similarities between the two and we went on the oval office to were. >> they say he is campaign was like mine that was interesting 1828. but that is a great and jackson was a great general and a great president. >> so he sees those similarities but what about the historians? he used the technology like he uses twitter jackson pioneered the use of the lithograph which is the artist rendering that is

Thrived. >> you don't erase history that is what everybody wants to read in books you don't burn books. >> andrew jackson figured out how to build the brigade 9 miles south of new orleans to keep 15,000 british soldiers out with a ragtag group from new orleans. really you are honoring everybody. brian: howdy you get to the point to fight to keep history?. >> we ask the same question is is 100 years of history. >> the battle that save the country to be honored for that and honored in other parts of the country to recognize how important that bottle what - - how that battle was but but in 1815 n...

Second american revolution and the one pure hero of that was andrew jackson. >> when andrew jackson passed away at the age of 78, this is his tomb, they put closure on the remarkable life, a life that wasn't without controversy. two things stand out most of all, the fact that this plantation was powered by slave laborers, as many as a hundred 50. this lady was closest to was buried by the general. he passed away at the age of 98. there was also the year 1830 when he signed the indian removal act pushing five tribes west word. >> andrew jackson used to be ranked around number seven on the polls...

Than in balloting he was the seventh president and an adequate general but a despicable human being and we don't honor despicable human beings. brian: as the statues come down across the south including new orleans some are residents are trying to keep jackson inside jackson square. they have monuments. >> andrew jackson was a fantastic he wrote to save new orleans and though the world owes him a lot this is of this country of freedom. brian: why do they want to take it down? very people don't understand that 450 men fought under andrew jackson. here you have people saying take him down becaus...