Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . FORT MIMMS. 160 THE MASSACRE AT FORT march with two thousand men, and put down the insurrection. Heproceeded through the Choctaw and Chickasaw country as far asNatchez, when, finding all quiet, he returned with his army to theNorth. But no sooner had General Jackson left the country, than thesame aggressive acts were resumed in a bolder manner. Ar^^-i^ few of the Indians, who remained ^7, friendly to the United States,were as
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . FORT MIMMS. 160 THE MASSACRE AT FORT march with two thousand men, and put down the insurrection. Heproceeded through the Choctaw and Chickasaw country as far asNatchez, when, finding all quiet, he returned with his army to theNorth. But no sooner had General Jackson left the country, than thesame aggressive acts were resumed in a bolder manner. Ar^^-i^ few of the Indians, who remained ^7, friendly to the United States,were assailed by the furious war-party, and bloody contests re-sulted among themselves; negroeswere incited to rise against theirmasters and join the insurgents ;the whole immediate country be-came a scene of the wildest alarm,and such of the settlers as couldnot escape to the northward, deserted their plantations, collectedtogether, and immediately erected and established themselves inforts. Several of these were constructed on the Mobile and its dif-ferent branches, but unfortunately too far apart, to be of any assist-ance to each other in a time of peril. To one of these, Fort Mimms, we will now direct a
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