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Claiborne, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Alabama river (Alabama, United States) (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Econochaca, battle at.
Marching from Fort Deposit, in Butler county, Ala. (December, 1813), General Claiborne, pushing through the wilderness nearly 30 miles with horse and foot and friendly Choctaw Indians, arrived near Econochaca, or Holy Ground, a village built by Weathersford upon a bluff on the left bank of the Alabama, just below Powell's Ferry, Lowndes co., in an obscure place, as a city of refuge for the wounded and dispersed in battle, fugitives from their homes, and women and children.
No path or trail led to it. It had been dedicated to this humane purpose by Tecumseh and the Prophet a few months before, and the Cherokees had been assured by them that, like Auttose, no white man could tread upon the ground and live.
There the Indian priests performed their incantations, and in the square in the centre of the town the most dreadful cruelties had already been perpetrated.
White prisoners and Creeks friendly to them had been there tortured and roasted.
On the mornin
Fort Deposit (Alabama, United States) (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Econochaca, battle at.
Marching from Fort Deposit, in Butler county, Ala. (December, 1813), General Claiborne, pushing through the wilderness nearly 30 miles with horse and foot and friendly Choctaw Indians, arrived near Econochaca, or Holy Ground, a village built by Weathersford upon a bluff on the left bank of the Alabama, just below Powell's Ferry, Lowndes co., in an obscure place, as a city of refuge for the wounded and dispersed in battle, fugitives from their homes, and women and children.
No path or trail led to it. It had been dedicated to this humane purpose by Tecumseh and the Prophet a few months before, and the Cherokees had been assured by them that, like Auttose, no white man could tread upon the ground and live.
There the Indian priests performed their incantations, and in the square in the centre of the town the most dreadful cruelties had already been perpetrated.
White prisoners and Creeks friendly to them had been there tortured and roasted.
On the morning
Butler County (Alabama, United States) (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Econochaca, battle at.
Marching from Fort Deposit, in Butler county, Ala. (December, 1813), General Claiborne, pushing through the wilderness nearly 30 miles with horse and foot and friendly Choctaw Indians, arrived near Econochaca, or Holy Ground, a village built by Weathersford upon a bluff on the left bank of the Alabama, just below Powell's Ferry, Lowndes co., in an obscure place, as a city of refuge for the wounded and dispersed in battle, fugitives from their homes, and women and children.
No path or trail led to it. It had been dedicated to this humane purpose by Tecumseh and the Prophet a few months before, and the Cherokees had been assured by them that, like Auttose, no white man could tread upon the ground and live.
There the Indian priests performed their incantations, and in the square in the centre of the town the most dreadful cruelties had already been perpetrated.
White prisoners and Creeks friendly to them had been there tortured and roasted.
On the mornin
William C. C. Claiborne (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Econochaca, battle at.
Marching from Fort Deposit, in Butler county, Ala. (December, 1813), General Claiborne, pushing through the wilderness nearly 30 miles with horse and foot and friendly Choctaw Indians, arrived near Econochaca, or Holy Ground, a village built by Weathersford upon a bluff on the left bank of the Alabama, just below Powell's Ferry, Lowndes co., in an obscure place, as a city of refuge for the wounded and dispersed in battle, fugitives from their homes, and women and c sts performed their incantations, and in the square in the centre of the town the most dreadful cruelties had already been perpetrated.
White prisoners and Creeks friendly to them had been there tortured and roasted.
On the morning of Dec. 23 Claiborne appeared before the town.
At that moment a number of friendly half-bloods of both sexes were in the square, surrounded by pine-wood, ready to be lighted to consume them, and the prophets were busy in their mummery.
The troops advanced in thre
George White (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Lloyd Lowndes (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Econochaca, battle at.
Marching from Fort Deposit, in Butler county, Ala. (December, 1813), General Claiborne, pushing through the wilderness nearly 30 miles with horse and foot and friendly Choctaw Indians, arrived near Econochaca, or Holy Ground, a village built by Weathersford upon a bluff on the left bank of the Alabama, just below Powell's Ferry, Lowndes co., in an obscure place, as a city of refuge for the wounded and dispersed in battle, fugitives from their homes, and women and children.
No path or trail led to it. It had been dedicated to this humane purpose by Tecumseh and the Prophet a few months before, and the Cherokees had been assured by them that, like Auttose, no white man could tread upon the ground and live.
There the Indian priests performed their incantations, and in the square in the centre of the town the most dreadful cruelties had already been perpetrated.
White prisoners and Creeks friendly to them had been there tortured and roasted.
On the mornin
Choctaw Indians (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
Econochaca, battle at.
Marching from Fort Deposit, in Butler county, Ala. (December, 1813), General Claiborne, pushing through the wilderness nearly 30 miles with horse and foot and friendly Choctaw Indians, arrived near Econochaca, or Holy Ground, a village built by Weathersford upon a bluff on the left bank of the Alabama, just below Powell's Ferry, Lowndes co., in an obscure place, as a city of refuge for the wounded and dispersed in battle, fugitives from their homes, and women and children.
No path or trail led to it. It had been dedicated to this humane purpose by Tecumseh and the Prophet a few months before, and the Cherokees had been assured by them that, like Auttose, no white man could tread upon the ground and live.
There the Indian priests performed their incantations, and in the square in the centre of the town the most dreadful cruelties had already been perpetrated.
White prisoners and Creeks friendly to them had been there tortured and roasted.
On the mornin
William Tecumseh (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at
William Weathersford (search for this): entry econochaca-battle-at