Andrew Jackson’s duel with Charles Dickinson didn’t result from a serious political conflict, but from a weird argument about a horse race.

The likely site of Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson's duel. Photo: Betsy Phillips. Like the Vikings discovering Canada or Hernando de Soto discovering the Mississippi River, ...

But Jackson was still able to fire his gun and kill Dickinson. "History sort of turned at that duel, and it should have gone the other way; Jackson should have been killed.

On this day in 1806, future President Andrew Jackson nearly died in a duel when he killed his opponent, ... One of most famous duels involving Jackson was with Charles Dickinson.

On May 30, 1806, Andrew Jackson, before becoming the 7th President of the United States, shot and killed Charles Dickinson of Caroline County, Maryland, in a duel near Nashville.