Yup, he did. And yet for some reason, he's regarded as a hero by mainstream america. Wow, imagine the uproar if modern day Germans tried to make out Hitler was a hero the way americans claim Jackson was...
shareYeah I agree with you! And it makes all the dialogue in the movie sound stupid, too. Compared to Andrew Jackson, Rocco is a choirboy!
"Your next challenge is always your biggest." Joe Namath
I don't know as if Jackson is regarded as a hero. True, the Democrats in many states hold a big "Jefferson-Jackson" dinner and fundraiser every year; but most of the time Democrats ignore their own history of slavery, treason, segregation, and the Klan (the militant wing of the Democrat Party).
When the Seminole attacked Andrew Jackson's army he responded by burning their villages and executing two Englishmen he held responsible for advising the Seminole to attack. Andrew Jackson was a brutally tough man. He was also the only American president to have adopted a Native American child as his son (two in fact), and at one time planned to send the boy to study at West Point.
Between 1817 and 1858 the USA fought 3 wars with the Seminoles, and never was able to win a complete victory, or negotiate a peace treaty. In 1913 Orange County Florida was renamed Seminole County Florida, so guess who won!
http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/parksrec/museum/seminole_indian_wars.aspx
Today's Democratic Party is no more responsible for the wrongs of the 19th Century Democrats anymore than today's Republican Party is the same party that once had Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Andrew Jackson is still so despised by Cherokees on account of the Trail of Tears, by the way, that they don't even like to see twenty dollar bills...something I saw in a Davy Crockett biography. Crockett, always seeing himself as a voice for the underdog, protested the Indian Removal Bill, and is still seen by the Cherokee as a hero today.
shareLet me guess.. another left-wing English troll. What does this have to do with Key largo?
shareSeminoles appear in KEY LARGO, and are framed for a murder of a lawman that Johnny Rocco committed. By the way, the U.S. Government never really defeated them, and in the end just let them be.
shareIn fact the Seminoles were defeated by The United States. Most Seminoles were removed from Florida to the west and those remaining in Florida were driven south into lands considered undesirable by the Americans, where the Americans were content to leave the Indians alone as long as they didn't make trouble.
Note that the Seminoles are not native to Florida but are descended from Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama who migrated into Florida to fill the vacuum left by the destruction of the native Florida Indians--Timucuans, Apalachees and such--by the English and their Indian allies, many of whom were Creeks. Many of the surviving native Indians went to Cuba in 1763 when Spain ceded Florida to Britain at the end of the Seven Years War.
As for Andy Jackson: almost all Americans benefit from the Indian removal policies of Jackson and other presidents. One who doesn't approve might put his money where his mouth is and give his property to the once local Indians and go back to the Old Country. Fat chance of that.