Creek War

noun

U.S. History.

1. an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.

Example Sentences

Cozzens’s retelling of the Creek War is as garish as it is gruesome, especially when it comes to events such as the Fort Mims massacre and Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

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While the Creek War has received more attention in academic circles in recent years, it is still a largely forgotten episode in American history for the reading public.

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Drawing upon the prizewinning work of Claudio Saunt, Cozzens explains the long buildup to the Creek War, pointing to the divisions that had begun to form between the Upper and Lower Creeks after the American Revolution.

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Whereas the average American might point to the Battle of New Orleans as the basis of Jackson’s fame, it was his victories during the Creek War that brought him into the national spotlight.

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Although Jackson is absent from early portions of “A Brutal Reckoning,” once he arrives, he takes center stage and “dominates the narrative just as he did the conduct of the Creek War.”

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