Réflexions sur la campagne du Général André Jackson, en Louisiane, en 1814 et 1815... - Réflexions sur la campagne du Général André Jackson, en Louisiane, en 1814 et 1815...

Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868) was a planter, land developer, and politician of New Orleans. He was the son of Pierre Philippe Enguerrand de Marigny de Mandeville and Jeanne Marie d'Estréhan des Tours. In 1804, he married Mary Ann Jones (died 1808). The couple's children were Gustave Adolph and Prosper François. In 1810, he married Anna Mathilde Morales (active 1810-1836), daughter of the former Spanish intendant, Juan Ventura Morales. The couple's children were Jean Bernard Xavier, Marie Rosa (born 1813), Marie Angela (born 1817), Armand, and Mathilde (born 1820). He subdivided his plantation in New Orleans in 1806, creating the Faubourg Marigny. In 1834, he sold his lots to form the town of Mandeville. Among other offices, he served as an aid to Governor William C. C. Claiborne during Battle of New Orleans, as a city council member from 1812-1835, in the Louisiana senate from 1818-1821, and as a member of the Louisiana constitutional conventions from 1812-1845. He is also credited with introducing the game of craps to America. He died in New Orleans on February 3, 1868.</br></br>Andrew Jackson was a soldier, an army general, and the president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He was born in Waxhaw, South Carolina on March 15, 1767 to Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson. During the War of 1812, he was commissioned by the federal government to be major general of volunteers and was then appointed major general of the U. S. Regular Army on May 28, 1814. He marched with his soldiers to New Orleans (arrived December 2, 1814) to prepare defenses against British invasion. In addition to regular troops, he gathered militia from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi, as well as free people of color and other volunteers from Louisiana. His victories at New Orleans made him a national hero. He was elected president in November of 1828 and was reelected in 1832. From 1832-1835, he instituted a policy of Indian removals that resulted in the forced relocation of many Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole from the South to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). He died at his plantation, "The Hermitage," near Nashville, Tennessee on June 8, 1845.