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A militia is generally an ___MASK29___ or some other type of fighting unit that is composed of non - professional fighters , citizens of a nation or subjects of a state or government who can be called upon to enter a combat situation , as opposed to a professional force of regular , full - time military personnel , or historically , members of the warrior nobility class ( e . g ., knights or samurai ). Unable to hold their own against properly trained and equipped professional forces , it is common for militias to engage in guerrilla warfare or defense instead of being used in open attacks and offensive actions . Andrew Jackson ( March 15 , 1767  June 8 , 1845 ) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and was the founder of the Democratic Party . He was born somewhere near the then - unmarked border between North and South Carolina , into a recently immigrated Scots - Irish farming family of relatively modest means . During the American Revolutionary War , Jackson , whose family supported the revolutionary cause , acted as a courier . At age 13 , he was captured and mistreated by the British ___MASK29___ . He moved to new lands in Tennessee becoming a lawyer , planter and militia commander . He served in the U . S . House of Representatives and the U . S . Senate but was not prominent there . The Seminole Wars , also known as the Florida Wars , were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole  the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of Native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early 18th century  and the ___MASK65___ . Taken together , the Seminole Wars were the longest and most expensive ( both in human and monetary terms ) Indian Wars in United States history . William Trousdale ( September 23 , 1790 -- March 27 , 1872 ) was an American soldier and politician . He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1849 to 1851 , and was United States Minister to Brazil from 1853 to 1857 . He fought under Andrew Jackson in the Creek War , the War of 1812 and the Second Seminole War , and commanded the U . S . Fourteenth Infantry in the Mexican - American War . His military exploits earned him the nickname , `` War Horse of Sumner County . '' The Creek War ( 1813 - 1814 ), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War , was a regional war between opposing Creek factions , European empires , and the United States , taking place largely in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast . The major conflicts of the war took place between state militias and the " Red Stick " Creeks . The Second Seminole War , also known as the Florida War , was a conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between various groups of Native Americans collectively known as Seminoles and the United States , part of a series of conflicts called the Seminole Wars . The Second Seminole War , often referred to as " the " Seminole War , is regarded as " the longest and most costly of the Indian conflicts of the United States ."