Fort Mims

American  

noun

1. a stockade in SW Alabama, near the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers: Indian massacre 1813.

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Example Sentences

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

Then major general of the Tennessee militia, Jackson saw this intratribal conflict, and the public opprobrium leveled at the Red Sticks in the wake of the Fort Mims killings, as weaknesses he could exploit in his ongoing quest to force Creek lands into Anglo hands.

From Slate

In the southern portion of that State, forty miles north of Mobile, stood Fort Mims.

From Project Gutenberg

Weathersford, their most heroic chief, the leader at the Fort Mims massacre, sought General Jackson at his camp.

From Project Gutenberg

"How dare you," said Jackson, "ride up to my tent, after having murdered the women and children at Fort Mims?"

From Project Gutenberg