With the Redsticks’ power broken at Horseshoe Bend, American leaders spent the early months of the summer of 1814 trying to figure out how best to proceed. Many people—including Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, territorial Gov. Willie Blount, and Benjamin Hawkins, the Americans’ chief ambassador to the Indian nation--exhibited the United States’ desire to punish the Creeks. But how?
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Becoming Alabama:
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