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

The Putnams brought my story out in book form, and its success prompted them to ask me for further boys' books, and as the subject of the Creek War was by no means exhausted, I drew upon it for the materials of "Captain Sam" and "The Signal Boys," thus making a trilogy that covered the entire period between the massacre at Fort Mims and the battle of New Orleans.

From Project Gutenberg

Uncle Tony's memory of what occurred at Fort Mims was vivid, according to Jim Thomas.

From Project Gutenberg