Everything that Americans like about themselves, their courage, their resilience, their loyalty, their love for their wives, their hatred of banks comes from Andrew Jackson's life experience. Everything that Law School Graduates, Europeans and civilized people across the world hate about Americans: the racism, the violence, the defiance of the rule of law, the greed comes from Andrew Jackson. Jackson may not have been the greatest American, but he is THE American. " Jackson had two brothers, Hugh (born 1763) and Robert (born 1764). Jackson's father died at the age of 29, three weeks before Jackson was born.  During the   Revolutionary  War , Jackson, at age thirteen, joined a local regiment as a courier. His eldest brother, Hugh, died from heat exhaustion during the Battle of Stono Ferry , on June 20, 1779. Jackson and his brother Robert were captured by the British  and held as  prisoners of war ;they nearly starved to death in captivity.