Out-manned and outgunned, Jackson mobilized a force of somewhat irregular an unlikely coalition of militiamen, local Creoles, free blacks, Choctaws, and associates of the privateers Jean and Pierre Lafitte (see page 74).
Creoles, free blacks, Choctaws, and militiamen were participants in the war of Jackson.
I have asked these men and women to help protect my village from the slavery that will soon fall upon them by a large band of murderers most vile.