place record

Muscogee homelands · Tallapoosa River

Horseshoe Bend

Fortified Red Stick position at Tohopeka

Jackson’s American, Cherokee, and allied Muscogee army broke Red Stick resistance here in March 1814.

Why this record matters

The battlefield belongs within Muscogee civil conflict, American expansion, and the land cession that followed, rather than merely within Jackson’s biography.

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Evidence behind this record

  1. Creek War in the SoutheastNational Park Service · campaign overview

    Muscogee civil conflict, United States intervention, and regional expansion.