Creek War

The Creek War was part of the War of 1812 in which the United States under General Andrew Jackson defeated the "Red Sticks" militant faction of the Creek Indians who were massacring American settlers. The other faction of Creeks were allied to the U.S.

Jackson's campaigns

Jackson led American militias, regulars and Indian allies against the Creek who had raided, raped and killed American settlers in what is now Alabama. Indians seldom fought pitched battles; they preferred the ambush. Jackson trapped the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend in Alabama in March 1814, and killed over 800 enemy; the rest fled to Spanish Florida.

Further reading

• Buchanan, John. Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters. (2001). 434 pp. online review
• O'Brien, Sean Michael. In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles. (2003). 254 pp.
• Owsley Jr., Frank L. Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815 (2000) excerpt and text search
• Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and his Indian Wars (2001)
• Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 (1977);
• Rowland, Dunbar. Andrew Jackson's Campaign against the British, or, the Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812, concerning the Military Operations of the Americans, Creek Indians, British, and Spanish, 1813-1815 (1926) online edition