. Indian history for young folks . UKNKKAL, JOHN COFFEE. AVAR WITH THE CRKEK NATION. 395 HORSE SHOE. This blow was fatal to the power and dignity of the Creek had contended like heroes, but against the superior numbers andweapons of the white men they fought in vain. When the chiefs appearedbefore Jackson to sue for pardon, he sternly told them that one conditionof their pardon was, that they must first bring in Weatherford, the cruelleader of the attack on Fort Minis, whocould on no account be forgiven. To hold them harmless, and seeingclearly the hopelessness of prolonging thecon


. Indian history for young folks . UKNKKAL, JOHN COFFEE. AVAR WITH THE CRKEK NATION. 395 HORSE SHOE. This blow was fatal to the power and dignity of the Creek had contended like heroes, but against the superior numbers andweapons of the white men they fought in vain. When the chiefs appearedbefore Jackson to sue for pardon, he sternly told them that one conditionof their pardon was, that they must first bring in Weatherford, the cruelleader of the attack on Fort Minis, whocould on no account be forgiven. To hold them harmless, and seeingclearly the hopelessness of prolonging thecontest, Weatherford resolved voluntarilyto surrender himself to the was, perhaps, the most striking inci-dent of the war. Mounting his splendid gray, withwhom, when hotly pressed, he had madethe daring leap from the bluff at the HolyGround into the waters of the Alabama,he rode to Jacksons camp. He arrived


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