fiver."
Indian! pp 191, 898, 1880; Pickett, Alabama, pi 9 92 96 reprint of 189C
'Ibid., p. 579; Lossfng Field Book of the War of 1812, p. 77:;
hookey] BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND — 1814 V)3
Pickett states, on what seems good authority, that the Creeks engaged
did not number more than five hundred warriors. Jackson had prob-
ably at least one thousand two hundred men. including Indians. 1
While these events were transpiring in the north, General Floyd
again advanced from Georgia with a force of about one thousand three
hundred Americans and four hundred friendly Indians, but was sur-
prised on Caleebee creek, near the present Tuskegee, Alabama, on the
morning of January 27, 1814, and compelled to retreat, leaving the
enemy in possession of the field. 2
We come now to the final event of the Creek war,the terrible battle
of the Horseshoe bend. Having received large reenforcements from
Tennessee, Jackson left a garrison at Fort Strother, and. about the
middle of March, descended the Coosa river to the mouth of Cedar
creek, southeast from the present Columbiana, where he built Fori
Williams. Leaving his stores here with a garrison to protect them,
he began his march for the Horseshoe bend of the Tallapoosa, where
the hostiles were reported to have collected in great force. At this
place, known to the Creeks as Tohopki or Tohopeka, the Tallapoosa
made a bend so as to inclose some eighty or a hundred acres in a nar-
row peninsula opening to the north. On the lower side was an island
in the river, and about a mile below was Emukfaw creek, entering from
the north, where Jackson had been driven