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Fort Mims
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Some history on Fort Mims and the Creek Nation — 42 weeks ago

During the American Revolution (1775-1783) the Creek again supported the British. They signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1790, but in 1813, encouraged by the British, they again took up arms against the Americans in what became known as the Creek War (1813-1814). This began with an attack led by William Weatherford, also known as Red Eagle, at Fort Mims in present-day Alabama, in which a large number of frontier settlers were killed (see Fort Mims, Massacre of). Federal and state troops led by General Andrew Jackson completely crushed the Creek uprising in a brief but bloody campaign. The Creek were then compelled to sign a treaty that surrendered more than half of their ancestral territory. “Creek (people),” Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2005
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Below is a very compelling account of the events leading up and through the massacre at Fort Mims.[Trust me, this is good reading. Too bad about the red font on white background, but you can always block it with your mouse, or even better, paste it onto notepad or some similar program]:
http://www.canerossi.us/ftmims/massacre.htm

An interesting old map is photographed and put up on a web page here:
http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/catalogues/fort756.html

Here a teacher and amateur historian has placed photos of re-enactments at Fort Mims, from what I can tell. This teacher also is asking for information and references to Creek History, among other things:
http://imageevent.com/whipgrey/fortmims2004

Aug 28, 07:46AM PDT 1 cheer |

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