![]() And in this way he would not be worse off than when I found him and I would be sure to leave him in a first-rate good humour. ![]() I would therefore have me a large buckskin hunting-shirt made, with a couple of pockets holding about a peck each and…in one I would carry a great big twist of tobacco, and in the other my bottle of liquor for I knowed when I met a man and offered him a dram, he would throw out his quid of tobacco to take one, and after he had taken his horn, I would out with my twist and give him another chaw. ![]() Hen I set out electioneering, I would go prepared to put every man on as good footing when I left him as I found him on. In his autobiography, Davy Crockett wrote about how he wooed voters. Print with a man assumed to be Davy Crockett at the centre, drawn & engraved by H. Davy Crockett died on that day, at the age of 49. The siege ended on March 6, 1836, when the Mexicans overran the fort in the Battle of the Alamo. Although Crockett had minimal experience as a soldier, his shooting skills proved valuable to the defenders. On February 23, a Mexican army reached San Antonio and laid siege to the Alamo, to which the Texians had retreated. He arrived in San Antonio in early February 1836. Crockett hoped to make some money and possibly rebuild his political career. In November 1835, Crockett headed for Texas, where American settlers were attempting to achieve independence from Mexico. Crockett was defeated in 1831, re-elected in 1833, and then defeated again in 1835. Crockett tried to champion the rights of impoverished farmers and squatters, but without wider support in Congress, he was unable to get any legislation passed. Although Crockett initially supported fellow Tennessee politician Andrew Jackson, who became president in 1828, he soon broke with Jackson, particularly over the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Crockett opposed the policies of President John Quincy Adams and Secretary of State Henry Clay, who appear in Napoleon in America. In 1827, he tried again and was elected to Congress. In 1825, Crockett ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives. His campaign style was simple and direct, and it fit well in an era in which political meetings usually opened with a barbecue and ended in a dance, with the candidates expected to buy drinks for everyone. In 1821, Crockett was elected to the Tennessee state legislature. ![]() This was followed by posts as justice of the peace, town commissioner, and colonel of the local militia regiment. He served in Spanish Florida during the War of 1812, but saw little action.ĭavy Crockett’s political career began in 1817, when he became a magistrate in Lawrence County, Tennessee. In 1813, he joined the Tennessee militia and fought in the Creek War in Alabama, acting as a scout because of his experience in the woods. He became a skilled hunter, killing 105 bears in a single season. The Crocketts had nine children and no money, so Davy was hired out to help pay off the family’s debts. Davy’s father was of French-Huguenot descent an ancestor changed the family name from Crocketagne to Crockett when emigrating to Ireland during the reign of King Louis XIV. Portrait of Davy Crockett by Chester Harding, 1834 Davy Crockett’s political careerĭavid (Davy) Crockett was born on August 17, 1786, in what is now Greene County, Tennessee.
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