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• The Tensaw
• Many paths to the Tensaw
• Americanization of Mississippi Territory
• Red path to war
• Creek civil war to Redstick war
• The battle of Fort Mims
• A country given up
• Trying times, 1813-1814
• Remembering Fort Mims
• Reverberations of Fort Mims.

The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage. The unprecedented Indian victory over the encroaching Americans who were bent on taking their lands and destroying their culture horrified many and injured the young nation's pride. Tragedies such as this one have always rallied Americans to a common cause: a single-minded determination to destroy the enemy and avenge the fallen. The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims, involving hundreds of dead men, women, and children, was just such a spark. Gregory Waselkov tells compellingly the story of this fierce battle at the fortified plantation home of Samuel Mims in the Tensaw District of the Mississippi Territory. With valuable maps, tables, and artifact illustrations, Waselkov looks closely at the battle to cut through the legends and misinformation that have grown around the event almost from the moment the last flames died at the smoldering ruins. At least as important as the details of the battle, though, is his elucidation of how social forces remarkably converged to spark the conflict and how reverberations of the battle echo still today, nearly two hundred years later.
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• The Tensaw
• Many paths to the Tensaw
• Americanization of Mississippi Territory
• Red path to war
• Creek civil war to Redstick war
• The battle of Fort Mims
• A country given up
• Trying times, 1813-1814
• Remembering Fort Mims
• Reverberations of Fort Mims.

The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage. The unprecedented Indian victory over the encroaching Americans who were bent on taking their lands and destroying their culture horrified many and injured the young nation's pride. Tragedies such as this one have always rallied Americans to a common cause: a single-minded determination to destroy the enemy and avenge the fallen. The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims, involving hundreds of dead men, women, and children, was just such a spark. Gregory Waselkov tells compellingly the story of this fierce battle at the fortified plantation home of Samuel Mims in the Tensaw District of the Mississippi Territory. With valuable maps, tables, and artifact illustrations, Waselkov looks closely at the battle to cut through the legends and misinformation that have grown around the event almost from the moment the last flames died at the smoldering ruins. At least as important as the details of the battle, though, is his elucidation of how social forces remarkably converged to spark the conflict and how reverberations of the battle echo still today, nearly two hundred years later.
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• Prologue: Burnt Corn Creek
• We are perfectly tranquil here
• Yelling and screaming like perfect demons
• The horror of the scene
• The doleful sound from the treetops
• Let every shot tell
• A rough sort of backwoodsman
• Rattling peals of thunder
• Unlawful and improper
• Rapine and plunder
• A whapper of a lie
• I will be governor of Tennessee
• Scalping knives and tomahawks
• Possessed with the furies
• I had come for their votes
• The bloody deeds of Gen. Jackson
• A thousand wild rumors
• A wicked, unjust measure
• A citizen of the Cherokee Nation
• Let us have Crockett's march
• Most daring outrage and assault
• I will go to Texas
• The claws of thirsty, rascally and convict soldiers
• Damn him, let him take the horse
• The enemy is closely shut up in Bejar
• Farewell
• The key to Texas
• The enemy are in view
• War is raging on the frontiers
• My orders must be obeyed
• A horrible carnage took place
• The flash of a musket
• Their forlorn situation
• That is Sam Houston's writing
• Wisdom and humanity dictates.

The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston. All three fought the Creeks and each would have his part to play two decades later when the Alamo was stormed during fight for Texan independence from Mexico. President Jackson was the first head of state to recognize the fledgling Republic of Texas. Colonel Crockett would be enshrined as a folk hero for his glorious stand at the Alamo. General Houston won Texan independence at San Jacinto in 1836. This book tells the stories of the two landmark battles - Fort Mims and the Alamo - and the interwoven lives of Jackson, Crockett and Houston, three of the most controversial men in American history.
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