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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tohopeka, or Horseshoe Bend, battle at (search)
Tohopeka, or Horseshoe Bend, battle at
In February, 1814, troops from east Tennessee were on the march to reinforce Jackson for the purpose of striking a finishing blow at the power of the Creek Indians.
About 2,000 of them pressed towards the Coosa, and at the same time a similar number from west Tennessee were making their way into Alabama. Colonel Williams, with 600 regulars, reached Fort Strother on Feb. 6.
Other troops soon joined them, and the Choctaw Indians openly espoused the cause of the United States.
At the close of February,
Map of the battle at Tohopeka. Jackson found himself at the head of 5,000 men. Supplies were gathered, and at the middle of March the troops were ready to move.
Meanwhile the Creeks, from experience, had such premonitions of disaster that they concentrated their forces at the bend of the Tallapoosa River, in the northeast part of Tallapoosa county, Ala., at a place called Tohopeka, or Horseshoe Bend, a peninsula containing about 100 acres
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams , Eleazar -1795 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williams , John 1664 -1729 (search)
Williams, John 1664-1729
Clergyman; born in Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 10, 1664; educated at Harvard College, and in 1686 settled as the first minister at Deerfield.
The village was attacked by French and Indians, March 1, 1704, and among the inhabitants carried into captivity were Mr. Williams and a part of his family.
Two of hiMr. Williams and a part of his family.
Two of his children and a black servant were murdered at his door.
With his wife and five children he began the toilsome journey towards Canada through the deep snow.
On the second day his wife, weak from the effects of recent childbirth, fainted with fatigue, when the tomahawk of her captor cleaved her skull, and so he was relieved of t a Indians near Montreal, they were ransomed and returned home, excepting a daughter Eunice (q. v.), whom the Indians refused to part with.
After the return of Mr. Williams to Deerfield in 1706 he resumed the charge of his congregation.
He married a daughter of Captain Allen, of Connecticut, and in 1711 was appointed a commissary