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Fort Mims
noun
- a stockade in SW Alabama, near the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers: Indian massacre 1813.
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Some of the men, remembering Fort Mims, would have done violence to the fallen chief, but Jackson protected him.
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At Fort Mims, however, they had done so, burning the house over the heads of the inmates.
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He planned and led the assault upon Fort Mims, and was everywhere foremost in all the fighting.
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The massacre at Fort Mims blanched every face and embittered every heart.
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I exerted myself in vain to prevent the massacre of the women and children at Fort Mims.
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