 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Presidents - 1867 - 510 pages
...Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the centre of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother....Gen. Jackson traversed the pathless wilderness in a inarch o£ eleven days. He reached their fort, called Tohopeka, or Horseshoe, on the 27th of March,... | |
 | Governors - 1884 - 846 pages
...Indians, who had combined under Tecumseh from Florida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white settlers, were committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action...their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 27111 of March. 1814. The bend of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres of tangled forest and... | |
 | Huron County (Mich.) - 1884 - 510 pages
...Fayettesville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles...or Horse-shoe, on the 27th of March. 1814. The bend =^~ 0»), of The fort was stormed. The fight was utterly desperate. Not an Indian would accept of quarter.... | |
 | Osceola County (Mich.) - 1884 - 432 pages
...Fayettestille, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles...their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 2yth of March. 1814. The bend The fort was stormed. The fight was utterly desperate. Not an Indian... | |
 | Midland County (Mich.) - 1884 - 444 pages
...Fayettesville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bendsof the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles...their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 2-th of March. 1814. The bend • 'l of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres of tangled forest... | |
 | 1887 - 414 pages
...Fayettesville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles...narrow neck the Indians had constructed a formidable breast-; work of logs and brush. Here nine hundred warriors, \ with an ample suply of arms were assembled.... | |
 | Governors - 1887 - 650 pages
...Fayettesville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles...their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the ayth of March. 1814. The bend of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres of tangled forest and... | |
 | Branch County (Mich.) - 1888 - 670 pages
...Fayettesville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles...traversed the pathless wilderness in a march of eleven clays. He reached their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 27th of March. 1814. The bend of... | |
 | Governors - 1889 - 636 pages
...Fayettesville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fori on one of the bends of the Tallauoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles...their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the zyth of March. 1814. The bend of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres of tangled forest and... | |
 | Governors - 1889 - 760 pages
...thebendsof theTallaooosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strothcr. With an army of two thousand men, Gen. Jackson traversed the pathless wilderness in a march of eleven diys. He reached their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 27th of March. 1814. The bend of... | |
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... Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable to mount his horse without assistance, gave his amazing energies to the raising of an army to rendezvous at Fayettesville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established... 
