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BATTLE OF HORSE-SHOE BEND

The Battle of Horse-Shoe Bend, Alabama, was a battle that occurred on March the 29th, 1814, between. General Andrew Jackson's army of 3000 whites, chiefly Tennessee militia, supported by friendly Cherokee Indians, and 700 or 800 Creek indians. The Creeks had fortified themselves in the horse-shoe of the Tallapoosa River. Andrew Jackson advanced his cannon to within 200 yards of the barricade and began firing, while the Cherokee allies swam the river and attacked the Creeks in the rear. An assault was then ordered and the fort carried, about 500 Creeks being killed, and an equal number of women and children being captured.
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