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Born March 14, 1782 Died April 10, 1858.
Thomas Hart Benton moved his family to a plantation in Tennessee, near Nashville, and continued his legal education. While there, he came to know Andrew Jackson.
With the outbreak of the War of 1812, Jackson made Benton his aide-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Jackson then assigned Benton to go to Washington, D.C., to represent his interests there. Benton did not like this assignment.
In 1813, he engaged Jackson in a frontier brawl in which Jackson was wounded.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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