DID YOU KNOW THAT?

 

On This Day: In 1813 the Battle of Tallushatchee took place in Alabama between Tennesee militiamen and Red Stick Creeks as part of the Creek War. After the massacre at Fort Mims, General Andrew Jackson assembled an army of 2,500 Tennessee militia and began to construct Fort Strother along the Coosa River. Fifteen miles away from the fort lay the Creek village of Tallushatchee where a sizable force of Red Stick warriors were. Jackson ordered his friend and most trusted subordinate, General John Coffee, to attack the village. Coffee took about 1,000 dragoons and arrived at the village on November 3, where he divided his brigade into two columns, which encircled the town. Two companies ventured into the center of the circle to draw out the warriors. The trap worked, the warriors attacked and were forced to retreat back into the buildings of the village. Coffee closed the circle in on the trapped warriors. Davy Crockett, serving in the Tennessee Militia, commented, "We shot 'em down like dogs." Coffee's forces killed about 180 warriors while suffering only 5 dead and 41 wounded. The Creek War was a complex series of events and battles over land rights in Georgia and Alabama. By the end of the so-called war, the Creeks were forced into signing the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ceded more than 20 million acres of land.

 

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