. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... issippi Territory. In addition to theseforces the lower Creeks took up arms againsttheir brethren, and the Cherokees and Choc-taws joined the Amer-ricans. The principalvillages of the hostileCreeks lay on and nearthe Coosa and Talla-poosa Rivers, and theirhunting-grounds ex-tended much farthernorth. The Tennessee for-ces, under GeneralJackson, were the firstto enter the Indiancountry, and a num-ber of unimportantencounters the third of Nov-ember
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... issippi Territory. In addition to theseforces the lower Creeks took up arms againsttheir brethren, and the Cherokees and Choc-taws joined the Amer-ricans. The principalvillages of the hostileCreeks lay on and nearthe Coosa and Talla-poosa Rivers, and theirhunting-grounds ex-tended much farthernorth. The Tennessee for-ces, under GeneralJackson, were the firstto enter the Indiancountry, and a num-ber of unimportantencounters the third of Nov-ember the Indianswere defeated in abloody battle at Tal-lasehatche, and on theeighth of the samemonth at were hard-wonvictories for the Amer-icans, and terribleblows to the the twenty-ninthof November theGeorgia volunteersunder General Floyd,attacked the Creek General Jackson at Emucfau, Jackson suc-ceeded in repulsing them, but in spite of hisvictory deemed it best to fall back to FortStrother. On the twenty-fifth the Indiansagain attacked him and were again after this Jackson, being largely rein. town of Autossee, and killed two hundredwarriors. The Creeks were badly armed, but theirspirit was unbroken by their reverses. Earlyin the year 1814 they assumed the offensive,and on the twenty-second of January attacked CAPTAIN (afterward SIR PHILIP) BROKE. forced, advanced into the Indian countniwith an army of four thousand Tennesseeans. At the Horse-Shoe Bend of the Tallaposathe Creeks had their principal settlement, anintrenched camp, in which they had collected 532 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. their women and children, under the pro-tection of one thousand warriors. Theywere attacked here on the twenty-seventh ofMarch, 1814, by Jacksons army, and theircamp was carried, after a desperate fight, inwhich six hundred warriors were killed andtwo hundred and fifty women and childrenwere made prisoners. This terrible blowput an end to the re
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