I've heard, obviously from sources that aren't particularly academic, that Andrew Jackson fought in many, many duels, and that he had bullets lodged in his body for life, and that he killed several people and wounded many others. What's the truth in this?
Who are some of the people he dueled, and why did he duel them? How did the duel play out and what was the aftermath?
How common was it for people to settle their arguments with duels in the US in the early 1800s?
What are some other famous duelists I should know about? I'm interested not just in the US, but in other countries as well, around the same time period.
Hi! You have several questions here, and hopefully others can help out to address all of them, but just fyi there have been a few threads touching on some of these questions, so you can at least get started with these
Which US presidents have killed someone directly? - there are scattered short comments on Jackson, but particularly near the bottom of the thread, it's made clear that he's known to have killed one man
How common was dueling in America? Was it ever totally legal? What were the rules? - per the title, a few comments on dueling
Why was Andrew Jackson's dueling behavior considered so dishonorable, and how did contemporaries view Charles Dickinson's dueling behavior? - our dueling flair, /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov, takes a closer look at the dueling death incident