Fort Mims
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Despite being originally limited to Creek Country and its boarders, the violence quickly transformed into a frontier struggle between the young United States and the resistant Red Stick forces following the attack of Fort Mims.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
In the southern portion of that State, forty miles north of Mobile, stood Fort Mims.
From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Thus ended the battle of Fort Mims, in some respects the most remarkable battle between Indians and white men of which history anywhere tells us.
From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston
Just below the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, on the east side of the stream, they will find the little town of Tensaw, and Fort Mims stood very near that place.
From The Big Brother A Story of Indian War by George Cary Eggleston
To Fort Mims he sent Major Beasley, with one hundred and seventy-five men, who, with seventy militiamen already there, swelled the force at that post to two hundred and forty-five fighting men.
From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston
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