A brutal reckoning : Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South / Peter Cozzens.

"From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable United States for control over the Deep South"-- The Creek War was one of the most tragic episodes in American history. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians lead to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cozzens, Peter, 1957- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Jackson, Andrew, > 1767-1845 > Military leadership.
Creek War, 1813-1814.
Creek War, 1813-1814 > Campaigns.
Muscogee people > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Muscogee people > Southern States > History.
Indians, Treatment of > Southern States.
United States > Territorial expansion.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Jackson, Andrew, > 1767-1845.
Command of troops.
Creek Indians.
Indians, Treatment of.
Military campaigns.
Territorial expansion.
Southern States.
United States.
1800-1899
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:xxii, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South
Format: Book
Contents:
  • From the ashes of the Entrada
  • A rope of sand
  • Between three fires
  • The sweets of civilization
  • The hungry years
  • Rise of the Red Sticks
  • Civil war
  • Stark mad
  • Terror in the Tensaw
  • The emergency of Old Hickory
  • Invasion of the Tennesseans
  • The Red Sticks resilient
  • All we lack is powder and lead
  • Tennesseans to the rear
  • Jackson courts disaster
  • A slow, laborious slaughter
  • An elusive peace
  • Betrayal at Fort Jackson
  • A scalp for a scalp
  • Shades of genocide.