Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama
Title | Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | George Eggleston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2016-12-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781541170155 |
The story of the Creek war naturally follows the life of Tecumseh and indeed the one story is necessary to the complete telling of the other. It may be best told in the form of a life of Red Eagle, who commanded on one side, and whose genius for command alone made the war an affair worth writing about. CONTENTS. PREFACE. CHAPTER I. Showing, by way of Introduction, how Red Eagle happened to be a Man of Consequence in History CHAPTER II. Red Eagle's People CHAPTER III. Red Eagle's Birth and Boyhood CHAPTER IV. The Beginning of Trouble CHAPTER V. Red Eagle as an Advocate of War--The Civil War in the Creek Nation CHAPTER VI. The Battle of Burnt Corn CHAPTER VII. Red Eagle's Attempt to abandon his Party CHAPTER VIII. Claiborne and Red Eagle CHAPTER IX. Red Eagle before Fort Mims CHAPTER X. The Massacre at Fort Mims CHAPTER XI. Romantic Incidents of the Fort Mims Affair CHAPTER XII. The Dog Charge at Fort Sinquefield and Affairs on the Peninsula CHAPTER XIII. Pushmatahaw and his Warriors CHAPTER XIV. Jackson is helped into his Saddle CHAPTER XV. The March into the Enemy's Country CHAPTER XVI. The Battle of Tallushatchee CHAPTER XVII. The Battle of Talladega CHAPTER XVIII. General Cocke's Conduct and its Consequences CHAPTER XIX. The Canoe Fight CHAPTER XX. The Advance of the Georgians--The Battle of Autosse CHAPTER XXI. How Claiborne executed his Orders--The Battle of the Holy Ground--Red Eagle's Famous Leap CHAPTER XXII. How Jackson lost his Army CHAPTER XXIII. A New Plan of the Mutineers CHAPTER XXIV. Jackson's Second Battle with his own Men CHAPTER XXV. Jackson dismisses his Volunteers without a Benediction CHAPTER XXVI. How Jackson lost the rest of his Army CHAPTER XXVII. Battles of Emuckfau and Enotachopco--How the Creeks "whipped Captain Jackson" CHAPTER XXVIII. How Red Eagle "whipped Captain Floyd"--The Battle of Calebee Creek CHAPTER XXIX. Red Eagle's Strategy CHAPTER XXX. Jackson with an Army at last CHAPTER XXXI. The Great Battle of the War CHAPTER XXXII. Red Eagle's Surrender CHAPTER XXXIII. Red Eagle after the War
Red Eagle and His People
Title | Red Eagle and His People PDF eBook |
Author | Nila Banton Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama
Title | Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | George Cary Eggleston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Alabama |
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William "Red Eagle" Weatherford was a Creek (Muscogee) Native American who led the Creek War offensive against the United States. Like many of the high-ranking members of the Creek nation, he was a mixture of Scottish and Creek Indian. His "war name" was Hopnicafutsahia, or "Truth Teller," and was commonly referred to as Lamochattee, or "Red Eagle," by other Creeks. During the Creek Civil War, in February 1813, Weatherford reportedly made a strange prophecy that called for the extermination of English settlers on lands formerly held by Native Americans. He used his "vision" to gather support from various Native American tribes.
Searching for Red Eagle
Title | Searching for Red Eagle PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 324 |
Release | |
Genre | Creek Indians |
ISBN | 9781617033445 |
Portrays William Weatherford, who rejected his Scots and French ancestry and embraced his Creek heritage, describes his fight against white encroachment in Georgia, and reflects on his spiritual influence.
Red Eagle
Title | Red Eagle PDF eBook |
Author | Peachill |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2018-01-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781979383202 |
Alabama. 1812. The southwestern frontier of the young United States spans hundreds of miles between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. The region is home to dozens of Native American tribes, American settlers, and the soldiers of Spain, France, England, and the USA. It is a melting pot unseen since the Persian Empire. On the banks of the Coosa River, William Weatherford manages brisk business from his trading post. He is the son of a Scottish military man, who served under George Washington, and a Creek Princess from the sacred Deer family. He moves through both worlds, native and European. He is known as Red Eagle among his Creek brothers. He commands respect. He is the sinew that holds his community from the brink of conflict. But as Red Eagle and his family steer the course of peace, rivals tussle for control of the land. A series of slights pushes the Creek Nation into standing their ground against the power-hungry Governor of the Alabama. When Red Eagle declines to choose sides, his side is chosen for him. With his wife and child murdered and his home burned to the ground. Red Eagle takes command of the Creek forces. He leads a strategic guerilla war of resistance that paralyzes the Governor and forces the US Government to call in General Andrew Jackson to quell the conflict. Through years of battle, Red Eagle commands Jackson's respect, but the radical factions of his own men - led by his half-brother, the Prophet Josiah - create dissent in his victory plan. As attrition hits both sides and the rivers of Alabama run red with the blood of citizens, how far will Red Eagle go to see peace in his homeland again? When does revenge become folly? When does the past become a dream you cannot return to? How can one man save his people from total destruction? This is the story of William Weatherford. The greatest warrior Andrew Jackson ever faced.
Red Eagle
Title | Red Eagle PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cooper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 9780891360674 |
Biography of William Weatherford, who chose to take a stand with his mother's Indian people against Andrew Jackson and the United States in the Creek Indian Wars. Assuming his Indian name, Red Eagle, he helped lead the fight that finally ended at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
RED EAGLE & THE WARS W/THE CRE
Title | RED EAGLE & THE WARS W/THE CRE PDF eBook |
Author | George Cary Eggleston |
Publisher | Blurb |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2017-03-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781366512529 |
A man of smaller intellectual mould than Tecumseh would not have dreamed of the possibility of establishing relations with people so distant as the Creeks were from the tribes of the North-west. But Tecumseh had all the qualities of a man of genius, the chief of which are breadth and comprehensiveness of view and daring boldness of conception.