Short answers, pulled from the story.
Andrew Jackson was born an orphan in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas three weeks before his father died in 1765. His family emigrated from Ulster, Ireland, and carried a deep-seated resentment toward the British that Elizabeth passed directly to her children.
Robert died just two days after arriving home following a prisoner exchange in late spring 1781 after contracting smallpox in a camp in Camden, South Carolina. Elizabeth died shortly thereafter after contracting cholera while nursing American prisoners of war on British prison ships in Charleston.
Andrew Jackson led a combined force of 3,000 men to overwhelm a Red Stick fort manned by 1,000 warriors at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in January 1814. Almost all the warriors were killed, and nearly 300 women and children were taken prisoner and distributed to Jackson's Native American allies.
Andrew Jackson received the Congressional Gold Medal for his victory at the Battle of New Orleans on the 8th of January 1815. His forces of 5,000 men repelled a British assault of 10,000 soldiers, causing over 2,000 British casualties while the Americans lost only 71.
Andrew Jackson's reputation was tainted by the legal establishment due to his subsequent imposition of martial law and arrest of a federal judge for habeas corpus violations. These actions occurred after his greatest triumph at the Battle of New Orleans on the 8th of January 1815.