Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . persuasions of Tecumseh, but by the emissaries ofEngland and Spain. From the same sources theyprocured abundant suppUes of arms and ammunition,and received promises of donations equal or superiorin value to those which they had been in the habit ofreceiving from the government of the United MASSACRE AT FORT MIMMS. 103 The first effects of these infernal machinationswere felt by the people of Mississippi, then a thinly-settled territory, and totally unprovided with the meansof efficient resistance. As a sort of frontier guard, orprotection against the
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . persuasions of Tecumseh, but by the emissaries ofEngland and Spain. From the same sources theyprocured abundant suppUes of arms and ammunition,and received promises of donations equal or superiorin value to those which they had been in the habit ofreceiving from the government of the United MASSACRE AT FORT MIMMS. 103 The first effects of these infernal machinationswere felt by the people of Mississippi, then a thinly-settled territory, and totally unprovided with the meansof efficient resistance. As a sort of frontier guard, orprotection against the roving parties of savages whofrequently plundered the settlers, a garrison of onehundred and fifty men had been stationed in whatwas known as the Tensaw Settlement. A small forti-fication had been erected at Tensaw, called FortMimms, in which the troops were stationed. At thecommencement of the hostile movements among theIndians, the inhabitants of the settlement took refugein the fort, increasing the number of its inmates tothree hundred and seventy souls. Against this postthe Creeks resolved that their first blow should bestruck. On the 30th of August, about one thousandwarriors, armed to the teeth, and stimulated by lustand vengeance, attacked the fort with indescribablefury. The garrison made a gallant resistance, butthe
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