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The Battle of Horseshoe Bend (also known as Tohopeka, Cholocco Litabixbee, or The Horseshoe), was fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory, now central Alabama. On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under Major General Andrew Jackson [ 2 ] defeated the Red Sticks , a part of the Creek Indian tribe who ...
William Weatherford, also known after his death as Red Eagle (c. 1765 – March 24, 1824), was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War (1813–1814) against Lower Creek towns and against allied forces of the United States.
In 1813, when the Cherokee raised up 636 men against the Red Stick faction of the Creek Indians in Alabama, Junaluska personally recruited over a hundred men to fight at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The Cherokee unit was incorporated into the combined Creek-Cherokee-Yuchi-Choctaw army under the command of Brig. General William McIntosh , a ...
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park is a 2,040-acre, U.S. national military park managed by the National Park Service that is the site of the penultimate battle of the Creek War on March 27, 1814. The military park is located in Tallapoosa County, Alabama .
Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama this weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of Horseshoe Bend. The battle was the single bloodiest day of conflict for ...
The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-7015-2. Holland, James W. "Andrew Jackson and the Creek War: Victory at the Horseshoe Bend", Alabama Review, 1968 21(4): 243–275. Kanon, Thomas. "'A Slow, Laborious Slaughter': The Battle Of Horseshoe Bend."
During the Creek War (1813–1814), he led Red Sticks warriors and survived the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. To carry out punishment for the crime of an unauthorized land cession, in 1825 Menawa led about 150 lawmenders in an attack on chief William McIntosh , who had signed the Treaty of Indian Springs that year without the consent of the Creek ...
Together with Cherokee allies, he defeated the Red Sticks Creek faction at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, ending the Creek War. [citation needed] Today, the Fort Mims site is maintained by the Alabama Historical Commission. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 1972. [28]