Fort Mims massacre

From the British and the Spaniards, the Indians received arms and ammunition.

The first attack of these Indians was on August 13, 1813, at Fort Mims in Alabama, where there were nearly two hundred American troops and where five hundred people were collected for safety.

The Indians, chiefly Creeks, were led by Red Eagle, who utterly annihilated the defenders of the fort under Major Beasley and scalped the women and children.

When reports of this unexpected and atrocious massacre reached Tennessee, the whole population was aroused to vengeance, and General Jackson, his arm still in a sling from his duel with Benton, set out to punish the savage foes.

Some whites are killed.

There's something called the Fort Mims Massacre.

The consequence of that is that American troops and militia from Tennessee and Alabama and Georgia form an army and they attack the Creeks and destroy the Creeks or really desolate the Creek nation in Alabama.

They're led by a man named Andrew Jackson.

But out West, Andrew Jackson is really doing incredible work when the Creek Nation rises to support of the, the British designs on America.

They massacre the, uh, settlers down in South Alabama at Fort Mims.

Uh, this is the largest Indian massacre in American history.

And, uh, Jackson has been wounded in a street fight, uh, almost killed by Thomas Hart Benton, of all people.

And so the doctors did not amputate his arm, though they expected that to kill him from infection.

He actually recovered the use of his arm eventually.

But after the Fort Mims massacre, Jackson got the news on his sickbed in Nashville, and he came up off his sickbed for the first time since his wounding and said, "By the Eternal, they shall be avenged." And it's like a line from William Shatner or something.

It's a really epic American line.

They actually walked over the log in their unavailing search for him.

Here he remained until night, when he stole from his hiding-place, and in safety reached Fort Montgomery, which was distant about two miles from Fort Mims.

End of chapter.

Recording by Brett Downey.

Chapter Four.

The Soldier Life.

The awful massacre at Fort Mims by the Creek Indians summoned, as with a trumpet peal, the whole region to war.

David Crockett had listened eagerly to stories of Indian warfare in former years, and as he listened to the tales of midnight conflagration and slaughter, his naturally peaceful spirit had no yearnings for the renewal of such sanguinary scenes.

This from CB Carl said, my father's family traces back to Alexander McGilvery.

When I was big, if you read accounts of the, you know, Fort Mims and the Creek, I didn't know that CB Carl, that's cool.

When I was little, my grandmother would take me up to Fort Mims and tell me the story of what happened there before it became a thing.

The story of the brother on brother war and how much religion was so instrumental and how bad things got kind of can be seen around the world still today.

Certainly, you know, the divisiveness, people thinking they're in stress times.

There's a lot of not just stress, there's strife.

And sometimes it comes down to we just are going to strike out and, you know, make a stand.

And we get things like the massacre at Fort Mims.

paperwork error.

On August 30, 1813, the Creek Red Sticks kill over 500 settlers, including 250 armed militia, in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.

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