1. John R Coffee was an American planter of English descent, and a state militia brigadier general in Tennessee.
27 Facts About John Coffee
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John Coffee commanded troops under General Andrew Jackson during the Creek Wars and the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.
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John Coffee started negotiations with the Chickasaw, but they did not conclude a treaty with the United States until after his death.
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John Coffee worked in the tobacco fields for 14 years, finally gaining freedom in 1744.
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John Coffee later served as a captain in the colonial militia.
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John Coffee was the daughter of Captain John Donelson III and Mary Purnell.
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John Coffee was elected President of the United States in 1828.
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John Coffee was considered the most even-tempered and least selfish of Jackson's lifelong friends.
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In early 1806, Coffee challenged Nathaniel A McNairy to a duel for publishing derogatory statements about Jackson.
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At the beginning of the War of 1812, John Coffee raised the 2nd Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen, composed mostly of Tennessee militiamen.
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Under Jackson's command, John Coffee led 600 men in January 1813 to Natchez, Mississippi Territory, via the Natchez Trace.
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John Coffee knocked Thomas Benton down a flight of stairs after Benton failed to hit Jackson, who was brawling with Jesse Benton Jr.
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American commander Andrew Jackson sent John Coffee to raid Black Warrior's Town, near a Muscogee tribal town near present-day Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on October 11,1813.
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Under Jackson, John Coffee led his brigade at the Battle of Tallushatchee.
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John Coffee set out with 900 mounted riders, including the Tennessee mounted gunmen.
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John Coffee's detachment feigned a retreat, drawing the Indian Warriors into the open.
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John Coffee was seriously wounded in the Battles of Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek.
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John Coffee was seriously wounded when he led a small party to turn their flank.
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The Red Sticks behind the front breastwork diverted much of their troops to the rear to combat John Coffee's combined force of mounted men and Indians.
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John Coffee's brigade was the first to engage the British, firing from behind the trees and brush.
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Later, after some failed investments, John Coffee began working as a surveyor.
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John Coffee appointed Coffee as his representative, along with Secretary of War John Eaton, to negotiate treaties to accomplish extinguishing Native American land claims and their removal.
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John Coffee negotiated the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek of 1830 with the Choctaw by which they ceded their Southeastern lands.
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John Coffee started negotiations with the Chickasaw, but the US did not conclude a treaty with these people until after his death.
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John Coffee died in Florence on July 7,1833, at age 61.
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John Coffee served as a general in the Georgia militia and was elected as the US Congressman from there.
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The legendary Texas Ranger, John Coffee Hays, was a cousin of Mrs Mary Coffee and named after her husband.