Fort Mims massacre
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fort-mims-massacre-167-16605797
title:
Fort Mims massacre
text:
The Fort Mims massacre took place on August 30, 1813, at a fortified homestead site 35-40 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, United States, during the Creek War. A large force of Creek Indians belonging to the Red Sticks faction, under the command of headmen Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, stormed the fort and defeated the militia garrison. Afterward, the Red Sticks conducted a massacre, killing almost all the remaining mixed Creek, white settlers, and militia at Fort Mims. They took nearly
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Part of the Creek War (1813)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mims_massacre
date created:
2005-07-29T20:56:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T14:47:11Z
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13
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