Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . pable and ferocious savage Tecumseh, and under theinfluence of the fanatical ravings of his brother, theprophet, a man less known as well as less able, but possi-bly more dangerous than the famous warrior. After their overwhelming success at the bloody massa-cre at Fort Mims on August 30th, 1813, they had beendefeated by Coffee at Talluschatches on the 3rd of No-vember, and most disastrously by Jackson at Talladegaon the 9th of November. Their spirit, however, hadremained u
Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . pable and ferocious savage Tecumseh, and under theinfluence of the fanatical ravings of his brother, theprophet, a man less known as well as less able, but possi-bly more dangerous than the famous warrior. After their overwhelming success at the bloody massa-cre at Fort Mims on August 30th, 1813, they had beendefeated by Coffee at Talluschatches on the 3rd of No-vember, and most disastrously by Jackson at Talladegaon the 9th of November. Their spirit, however, hadremained unbroken by these reverses and after the with-drawal and dispersion of the American levies, in a seriesof predatory forays they had continued ravaging the bor- l8z 182 Border Fights and Fighters der. A determined effort was needed to crush them andbring them finally into subjugation. To Jackson was entrusted this duty. The Creeks wiereimmediately aware of the projected movement and withspirit undaunted they concentrated their forces and re-solved to stake their cause on one last desperate effort. ••;-liiflbl.:;:.. Map of the Horse-Shoe Bend and plan of the battle. The spot in which they had elected to make their standwas singularly well adapted for defensive purposes by thearrangement of nature. The Tallapoosa River, an affluent of the Alabama, isone of those tortuous southern streams which, in theirmany windings, drain a vast extent of territory. About Jacksons Victory at Tohopeka 183 the middle of the eastern side of the present state the riverbends sharply upon its course enclosing a piece of groundabout one hundred acres in extent in the shape of a horse-shoe—called from that fact, To-ho-pe-ka, by the the neck of the peninsula, three hundred and fifty yardsacross, the Indians had erected a breastwork of logs aboutsix feet high and piled in zigzag fashion somewhat likean old-fashioned snake fence, the interspaces being filledwith smaller timber and brushwood.
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