Date:
1817
Original Format:
Cartoon
Item#:
7.153

"American Justice or the Ferocious Yankee General Jack's Reward for Butchering Two British Subjects" This 1819 British cartoon attacks General Andrew Jackson for executing two British subjects. In 1817, Jackson had executed Alexander Arbuthnot and Lieutenant Robert Armbrister for spying, giving aid to the enemy and commanding hostile Indians in warfare against the U.S. during the Florida Seminole War.

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