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Map of Alabama during the War of 1812. Fort Mims is located in the lower left. [6]: 751 At the time of the War of 1812, tensions within the Creek Nation split into factions. Creek nativists known as the Red Sticks wanted to keep traditional ways and argued against more accommodation of white settlers.
Tensaw is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Daphne–Fairhope–Foley Micropolitan Statistical Area and is the home of historic Fort Mims. The name Tensaw is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. [2] A post office operated under the name Tensaw from 1807 to 1953. [3]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Fort Madison (Alabama) Fort McClellan; Fort Mims; Fort Mitchell Historic Site; Fort ...
Chiefs Peter McQueen and William Weatherford led an attack on Fort Mims, north of Mobile, on August 30, 1813. The Red Sticks' goal was to strike at mixed-blood Creek of the Tensaw settlement who had taken refuge at the fort. The warriors attacked the fort and killed a total of 400 to 500 people, including women and children and numerous white ...
Map of Alabama during the War of 1812. Fort Pierce is located in the bottom left. After the Battle of Burnt Corn Creek, Red Sticks planned to attack Fort Mims, as some métis who assisted in the American attack had taken refuge inside. [10] The Red Sticks initially planned a simultaneous attack on Fort Pierce along with their attack on Fort ...
United States soldiers at Fort Mims, ... Map of events in Alabama during the War of 1812. Burnt Corn battle site is located in the bottom left. References
History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Willo Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1363310845. Waselkov, Gregory A. (2006). A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama. ISBN 0-8173-1491-1.
The Red Sticks decided to attack the garrison at Fort Mims in the Mississippi Territory (present-day Tensaw, in southwestern Alabama), in an attempt to reduce the influence of the Tensaw Creek who controlled the fort. Also at the fort were intermarried whites, and other settlers and their slaves from the frontier who had become alarmed after ...