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Battle of Horseshoe Bend

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Tallapoosa River · Alabama

Estimated casualties

800 – 900estimated dead

Roughly 800 Red Stick warriors killed; U.S. and allied losses far smaller (~49 killed).

SOURCEWikipedia: Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814)

On 27 March 1814, Andrew Jackson's force of U.S. soldiers and allied Creek and Cherokee crushed the Red Stick Creek at Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River, killing some 800 warriors and effectively ending the Creek War.

Belligerents2

United States and allied Creek/Cherokee
Red Stick Creek

Conflict graph

PART OFCreek War · War of 1812

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814)
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-horseshoe-bend · Sources & methodology