Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812 by Kathryn E. Holland Braund,Marianne Mills,Jay Lamar,Ted

By Kathryn E. Holland Braund,Marianne Mills,Jay Lamar,Ted Isham,Susan M. Abram,Robert P. Collins,Gregory Evans Dowd,John E Grenier,David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler,Ove Jensen,Tom Kanon,James W. Parker,Craig T. Sheldon Jr,Robert G. Thrower,Gregory A. Waselk

Tohopeka incorporates a number of views and makes use of a big selection of facts and methods, from scrutiny of cultural and non secular practices to literary and linguistic research, to light up this afflicted period.

 

Almost 200 years in the past, the territory that will develop into Alabama was once either historical fatherland and new frontier the place a fancy community of allegiances and agendas used to be taking part in out. the material of that community stretched and frayed because the Creek Civil conflict of 1813-14 pitted a faction of the Creek kingdom often called pink Sticks opposed to these Creeks who supported the Creek nationwide Council.  The struggle started in July 1813, while pink Stick rebels have been attacked close to Burnt Corn Creek via Mississippi defense force and settlers from the Tensaw zone in a useless try to hold the purple Sticks’ ammunition from attaining the most physique of disaffected warriors. A retaliatory strike opposed to a fortified payment owned via Samuel Mims, now referred to as citadel Mims, was once a crimson Stick victory.  The brutality of the attack, within which 250 humans have been killed, outraged the yank public and “ have in mind fortress Mims” turned a countrywide rallying cry.

 

During the American-British battle of 1812, american citizens fast joined the battle opposed to the purple Sticks, turning the civil conflict right into a army crusade designed to ruin Creek strength. The battles of the pink Sticks became a part of Alabama and American legend and comprise the recognized Canoe struggle, the conflict of Holy floor, and most importantly, the conflict of Tohopeka (also often called Horseshoe Bend)— the ultimate nice conflict of the struggle. There, an American military overwhelmed Creek resistance and made a countrywide hero of Andrew Jackson.

New awareness to fabric tradition and documentary and archaeological files fills in info, provides new details, and is helping disabuse the reader of outmoded interpretations.

 

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Susan M. Abram / Kathryn E. Holland Braund/Robert P. Collins / Gregory Evans Dowd /

John E. Grenier / David S. Heidler / Jeanne T. Heidler / Ted Isham / Ove Jensen / Jay Lamar /

Tom Kanon / Marianne generators / James W. Parker / Craig T. Sheldon Jr. / Robert G. Thrower / Gregory A. Waselkov

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