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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 465<br />

Mississippi settlers, re-enforced by friendly Choctaws, General Claiborne<br />

marched into <strong>the</strong> wilderness. From East Tennessee, a body <strong>of</strong> men<br />

commanded by Gen. John Cocke started toward <strong>the</strong> Alabama line.<br />

But <strong>the</strong>re was still ano<strong>the</strong>r army on <strong>the</strong> move. It was composed <strong>of</strong> rifle<br />

men from West Tennessee and at its head—his arm in a sling and his<br />

shoulder too weak to bear <strong>the</strong> weight <strong>of</strong> an epaulet—rode an intrepid<br />

Scotch-Irishman, lean and lank, destined within a few months to make<br />

himself known to all <strong>the</strong> civilized world—Gen. Andrew Jackson.

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