John Coffee

John R. Coffee (June 2, 1772 – July 7, 1833) was an American planter of English descent, and a state militia brigadier general in Tennessee. He commanded troops under General Andrew Jackson during the Creek Wars (1813–14) and the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.

Quotes

• The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrours, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
  • On American Indian fighters at the Battle of Tallushatchee, 3 November 1813, in an official report to Andrew Jackson (November 1813), as quoted in James Porton, Life of Andrew Jackson (1860)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on John Coffee on Wikipedia