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The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks, 1814) was signed on August 9, 1814 at Fort Jackson near Wetumpka, Alabama following the defeat of the Red Stick (Upper Creek) resistance by United States allied forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
On August 9, 1814, Andrew Jackson forced the Creek to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson. The Creek Nation was forced to cede 23 million acres (93,000 km 2)—half of central Alabama and part of southern Georgia—to the United States government; this included territory of the Lower Creek, who had been allies of the United States. Jackson had ...
On August 9, 1814, the Creeks signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ceded 23 million acres (93,000 km 2) of land in Alabama and Georgia to the United States government. Map of Horseshoe Bend References
On August 9, 1814, Andrew Jackson forced headmen of both the Upper and Lower towns of Creek to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson. Despite protest of the Creek chiefs who had fought alongside Jackson, the Creek Nation ceded 21,086,793 acres (85,335 km²) of land—approximately half of present-day Alabama and part of southern Georgia —to the ...
Construction of the fort began in May 1814, when the British seized the trading post of John Forbes and Company. [24] The British launched an invasion of Pensacola during the War of 1812 and occupied it [25] until General Andrew Jackson took the town on November 7, 1814.
In the midst of the War of 1812, an 1813 civil war in the Creek Nation led to an invasion by Americans from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi Territory.In the ensuing Creek War of 1813–1814, General Andrew Jackson commanded the combined American forces of Tennessee militia, U.S. regulars, and Cherokee and Creek Indian allies.
Jackson planned to capture the fort by storm the next day, but it was blown up and abandoned before Jackson could move on it and the remaining British withdrew from Pensacola [49] along with the British squadron (comprising HMS Seahorse (38 guns; Capt. Gordon), HMS Carron (20 guns; Capt. Spencer), HMS Sophie (18 guns), HMS Childers (18 guns ...
Treaty of Fort Jackson, 9 August 1814 Ended the Creek War, demanded land from both the Muscogee (Creek) and the Cherokee. Treaties of Washington, 22 March 1816 Ceded last remaining lands within the territory limits claimed by South Carolina to the state. Treaty of Chickasaw Council House, 14 September 1816 Ceding land in northwestern Alabama.