By Richard D. Blackmon, Center of Military History (U.S. Army)
ISBN-10: 1505631580
ISBN-13: 9781505631586
In lots of respects, the Creek warfare of 1813–1814 is taken into account a part of the Southern Theater of the battle of 1812. The Creek warfare grew out of a civil struggle that pitted Creek Indians striving to keep up their conventional tradition, referred to as purple Sticks, opposed to these Creeks who sought to assimilate with usa society. Spurred by way of non secular prophets and grants of British assistance, the purple Sticks grew more and more competitive and have been ultimately attacked by means of Mississippi Territory armed forces, which sparked the Creek battle. With a virtually whole dearth of normal U.S. military devices, the militias from the Mississippi Territory, Tennessee, and Georgia, in addition to Choctaw and Cherokee allies, all invaded the Creek country to assault the crimson Stick Creeks. in the beginning the moves have been uncoordinated, yet, regardless of abysmal provide structures, the U.S. forces finally crushed the crimson Sticks. Their defeat on the conflict of Horseshoe Bend compelled them into the treaty of citadel Jackson in August 1814, at which they ceded a few 23 million acres in what at the moment are the states of Alabama and Georgia.
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Completely surprised, the pickets nevertheless made a stout resistance behind barricades, giving time for the rest of the troops to fall into the formations Floyd had taught them two days earlier. The Georgians soon realized that they could not maneuver effectively within the small encampment. Fortunately for them, daybreak allowed them to target the Red Stick warriors more effectively. Supported by their artillery, the Georgians gained the advantage and the Red Sticks withdrew. Floyd’s losses were terrible for the Creek War, twenty-five killed and one hundred fifty wounded.
On 9 August 1814, the thirty-six Creek headmen present signed the treaty. ” The treaty signing occurred just in time. Several days later, a British expedition arrived in the Gulf of Mexico at the Apalachicola River and in Pensacola. With the Creek War at an end, Jackson could turn his full attention to the new adversary. He marched his army to Mobile where he repelled a British attack in mid-September 1814. He then marched to Pensacola and forced the British to withdraw completely from the Gulf Coast.
When on the attack as at Fort Mims and at Calabee, Emuckfau, and Enotachopco Creeks, they emerged victorious either by inflicting more casualties or by turning back the advancing Americans. When the Red Sticks remained on the defensive, allowing the Americans to attack them in their towns, they usually incurred stinging defeats. It is curious then why they allowed themselves to be attacked at Tohopeka in March 1814. Notwithstanding its impressive fortifications, the town proved to be a deathtrap for the Red Sticks.
The Creek War 1813-1814 by Richard D. Blackmon, Center of Military History (U.S. Army)
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