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Glossary Term – Event
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Chief Red Eagle of the Creeks surrendered to General Andrew Jackson after the battle of Horse Shoe Bend, leading to the opening of southern and western Alabama to white settlement.
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The Massacre of American Indian allies, 1818
On April 23, 1818, Captain Obed Wright of the Georgia militia ordered an attack on a Chehaw village, which resulted in the slaughter of several American Indians. In a letter written a week after the attack, Brigadier General Thomas Glascock reported it to his superior officer, General Andrew Jackson. Glascock’s account of the Chehaw affair is important not only for its description of how 230 militiamen killed “seven men . . . one woman and two Children” but also for how it shaped Jackson’s response to the massacre.
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