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    The Fort Mims massacre took place on August 30, 1813, at a fortified homestead site 35-40 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, during the Creek War. A large...
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  • taken refuge there. Estimates of the number of settlers at Fort Mims at the time of the massacre vary from 300 or so to 500 (including whites, slaves, and...
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    Fort Stoddert as part of the Creek War. The 3rd Infantry Regiment was commanded by General Thomas Flournoy to Fort Stoddert following the Fort Mims massacre...
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  • The Scott Massacre, coming after the recent (1813) Fort Mims massacre, was a factor convincing the United States that the Creeks must be defeated, beginning...
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    other Red Sticks, Weatherford participated in a retaliatory attack on Fort Mims. It was a hastily built civilian stockade on the lower Alabama River,...
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  • attacks. Fort White was likely abandoned after the Fort Mims massacre. Timothy H. Ball visited the site of Fort White prior to writing his history of the Creek...
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  • occupied Fort Carney. Prior to the Fort Mims massacre, it was reported that Red Stick warriors examined Fort Carney but decided to attack Fort Mims instead...
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  • Deerfield Massacre First Battle of Dragoon Springs First Battle of Pyramid Lake First Battle of the Stronghold Fetterman Fight Fort Mims Massacre Fourth...
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  • was falsely assumed Fort Pierce would be attacked prior to Fort Mims because Fort Pierce had lighter defenses. Instead, Fort Mims was attacked by the...
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    Fort Mims, who included Lower Town Creek, intermarried whites and slaves, and other settlers, in an event that became known as the Fort Mims massacre...
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    In the history of the European colonization of the Americas, an Indian massacre is any incident between European colonists and indigenous peoples wherein...
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    1812", Louisiana History 1964 5(1): 41–51 Frank L. Owsley, Jr., The Fort Mims Massacre. Alabama Review; 1971 24(3): 192–204 Mississippi Territory Profile...
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    stockade forts used during the Creek War (part of the War of 1812), were located near Tensaw: Fort Mims (site of the Fort Mims massacre), Fort Montgomery...
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    and in August 1813 they attacked an American outpost at Fort Mims. After the Fort Mims massacre, frontier settlers appealed to the government for help...
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    marching from Fort Brooke in Tampa to Fort King in Ocala, killing all but three of the 110 army troops. This came to be known as the Dade Massacre. As the realization...
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    the Fort Mims massacre and became a rallying cause for American militia. The Red Sticks subsequently attacked other forts in the area, including Fort Sinquefield...
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    was appointed major general of the Tennessee militia in 1802. The Fort Mims massacre occurred near Mobile, Mississippi Territory, on August 30, 1813, and...
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    After the Battle of Burnt Corn and the Fort Mims massacre, the United States began constructing multiple forts in the Mississippi Territory to protect...
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  • settlements. The next month, in August 1813, McQueen took part in the attack on Fort Mims, in the Tensaw, Alabama area. It was a center of plantations owned by...
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    The Battle of Fort Dearborn (sometimes called the Fort Dearborn Massacre) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans...
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    Red Stick War (Creek civil war) Battle of Burnt Corn Fort Mims Massacre Kimbell-James Massacre Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) Prospect Bluff Historic...
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    camp meeting was held at Fort Easley in early August 1813, prior to the Fort Mims massacre. Occupants from the nearby Turner's Fort also attended the meeting...
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  • captured[clarification needed] 1813 Aug 12 Capture of USS Argus 1813 Aug 30 Fort Mims massacre 1813 Sep 10 Battle of Lake Erie 1813 Sep 25 Capture of HMS Boxer 1813...
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  • Americans were later dispersed. Fort Mims Massacre (August 30, 1813) – The defeat of the American garrison at Fort Mims by a party of the Red Sticks faction...
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  • Red Stick War (Creek civil war) Battle of Burnt Corn Fort Mims Massacre Kimbell-James Massacre Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) Prospect Bluff Historic...
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    30 – Creek War – Fort Mims massacre: A force of Creeks, belonging to the Red Sticks faction, kills hundreds of settlers in Fort Mims, Alabama. August...
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    Red Stick War (Creek civil war) Battle of Burnt Corn Fort Mims Massacre Kimbell-James Massacre Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) Prospect Bluff Historic...
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    the Ft. Mims Massacre of 1813 during the Creek Indian War The Fort Mims Massacre was followed two days later by the smaller Kimbell-James Massacre. The only...
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    meeting between the British and the Creeks at Picolata, the site of a Spanish fort about 13 miles west of St. Augustine in northeastern Florida. Cowkeeper and...
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    Red Stick War (Creek civil war) Battle of Burnt Corn Fort Mims Massacre Kimbell-James Massacre Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) Prospect Bluff Historic...
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