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Creek War

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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THE CREEK WAR

THE WAR GENERALS

  • General Jackson
  • General Floyd
  • General Ferdinand Claiborne
  • General William McIntosh
  • General Cocke

The creek war took place in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and parts of Florida

How it started
On July 27, 1813, in the Mississippi Territorial Militia intervened in a civil war that had been raging within the Creek Nation in Alabama and Georgia. The militia's attack on a Creek supply train at Burnt Corn Creek in Alabama brought the United States into a bloody conflict that is remembered today as the Creek War of 1813-1814.

The United States, creek fractions, and European empires

The United States and the allied creeks won the war on March 27, 1814

After math
USA 584 killed red stick creek1597 killed