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Gen. Coffee. He tried to get information from him as to whether other Indians were stationed in the rear of Coffee's command. A tomahawk was raised in a threatening manner to make him communicate, when the fellow, instead of shrinking or cowering, defiantly threw his head forward to receive the stroke! The Indians made a desperate fight, and were nearly all cut to pieces. They preferred death to a surrender. About 45 whites were killed, and upwards of a hundred wounded, including Sam. Houston. The bodies of the dead were sunk in the river, and the wounded were borne on biers or litters, made by stretching fresh ox hides over two long parallel poles, the ends of which were fastened to a horse in front and behind, the wounded man being between the two animals. How different from the splendid ambulances captured at the battle of Manassas. This battle broke the Creek power, but the war did not immediately end. In a subsequent expedition, lower down on the Tallapoosa river,