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  2. Fort Mims massacre - Wikipedia

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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 force of Creek Indians belonging to the Red Sticks faction, under the command of Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, stormed the fort and defeated the militia garrison.

  3. List of Indian massacres in North America - Wikipedia

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    Fort Mims Massacre: Alabama: After a Muscogee victory at the Battle of Burnt Corn, a band of Muscogee Red Sticks attacked Fort Mims, in what today is Alabama, killing 400–500 settlers, slaves, militiamen, and Muscogee loyalists and taking 250 scalps. This action brought the US into the internal Creek War, at the same time as the War of 1812.

  4. William Weatherford - Wikipedia

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    In late August 1813, with Peter McQueen and other Red Sticks, Weatherford participated in a retaliatory attack on Fort Mims. It was a hastily built civilian stockade on the lower Alabama River, about 35 miles north of Mobile. Frontier American families and Lower Creek had retreated to the fort, which was ineptly guarded.

  5. Peter McQueen - Wikipedia

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    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 mixed-race Creek. The Red Sticks believed such men to have left core Creek values. The assault on the fort became a massacre of most of the militia and refugees within. The Red Sticks killed a total ...

  6. Red Sticks - Wikipedia

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    The stockade and fort have been reconstructed at the historic site. The state installed a historic plaque at the Fort Mims site that notes the British had provided weapons to the Red Sticks as part of its campaign against Captain Kaleb Johnson's troops in the South during the War of 1812. [14]

  7. Fort Pierce (Alabama) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Pierce was guarded by soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Montgomery, who had been sent to Fort Pierce from the main body of troops under the command of Major Daniel Beasley at Fort Mims. [14] On August 30, 1813, an estimated 750 Red Stick warriors attacked Fort Mims in what became known as the Fort Mims massacre. On the morning of ...

  8. Battle of Horseshoe Bend - Wikipedia

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    After the Fort Mims massacre, frontier settlers appealed to the government for help. Since Federal military forces were committed to waging the War of 1812 against Great Britain , the governments of Tennessee , Georgia , and the Mississippi Territory organized militia forces, which together with Lower Creek and Cherokee allies, fought against ...

  9. Tensaw, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    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] Three former 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, and Fort Pierce. [4]