Both were victorious in battles against Indians.
Jackson went on to rout the British and gain a great victory which was important to the American psyche, at New Orleans.
Harrison was chosen by the Whigs, as a sort of duplicate of Jackson. Although he was really from the old aristocracy of Virginia, he lived in the west and had one notable victory over Tecumseh at Tippecanoe. He also had served as a territorial governor and had no political baggage to overcome, since he had never served as a elected official, (except as the clerk of a county court.)
One result of the War of 1812 was later election to the presidency of war heroes Andrew Jackson and of William Henry Harrison.
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Oliver Perry and Andrew Jackson
Oliver Hazard Perry and Andrew Jackson.
He was not into hero worship. He admired Napolean as military tactician. When Lafatette came back to American sometime around 1820, he came to Nashville to see Jackson- perhaps Lafayette was one of his heroes.
After Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and the Heroes of Olympus there is The Kane Chronicles.
Harrison Hunt has written: 'Johnny Hoosier' 'Heroes of The Civil War'
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Benjamin Harrison Lehman has written: 'Carlyle's theory of the hero' -- subject(s): Heroes
The new Percy Jackson series is called the Heroes of Olympus. This series carries on what happened after The Last Olympian, the final Percy Jackson book, only with new heroes. The first book of the Heroes of Olympus is the Lost Hero.
William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, U.S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower were elected primarily, if not entirely, because they were military heroes. George Washington , Andrew Jackson were war heroes with worthy records in other areas. James Monroe, George H. W. Bush , Theodore Roosevelt and John Kennedy performed heroically in military combat before they entered government service. Franklin Pierce, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield and Benjamin Harrison were war-time appointments as generals which fact undoubtedly helped them in their political campaigns.
the heroes of kansas are William Henry, John Patrick and Matthew Wilconsis