Clark Mills had never seen an equestrian statue before making one. He trained his horse Olympus to rear on hind legs in his studio. At the dedication, skeptics said it would topple. Mills threw himself against the front legs. It didn't move.
Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans on January eighth, eighteen fifteen. The British lost over two thousand men. The Americans lost about seventy. The war had been over for two weeks — nobody knew because ships are slow.
After the battle, Jackson refused to lift martial law for months, arrested a judge who challenged him, and eventually paid a one thousand dollar fine for contempt. Congress paid it back in eighteen forty-four. With interest.
— From the tour: Pirates, Presidents & Purchase Receipts
