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of the water. IL was wilA- rough piece 6f ground. abhourding in places which would afford covert to en Inditn warrior. At the time of which we write. the surrcundfng country, for a hundred miles or more. was . nearly unhroksn w1ldernsss of forsst. swamp and cane, marked only by the trail of wild beasts ana the trace" of wild men. As well from its situation as its form. this place was entitled to be styled the heart of the Indian coun'- try.
 . Brsef Dessrirtssn sf the Battle. sswhile full and detailed accounts of the battle will be found in the append to not inappropriate,here. Hon. Willis Brewer. author of Alabama. Her his- toky Resources. Public Men. etc.. tts52J. p. SAT. deseribes it in . terse and graph- 10 way:
 "At okfuskee. on the TalIapoosa. the British established fort in 17sS. and occupied it for several years for the purpose of alienating the Upper Musco- gees from the French. Near Okfuskee. within. and at the apex of. the Horse shoe Bend. stood Tahopeka. where the Indians collected to resist Jackson chuIa Harje tOld Mad Jacksonl as they called him. They constructed -A breastwork of timber across the mouth of the little peninsula. and were so confident Of victory that they permitted their wives and children to remain in was Manaowa, who led the party that killed Gen w1ns Mcintosh twelve years after. and where were not less than 1000 warriors present.
 Gen Jackson. with nearly 5000 troops, left Fort Strother. March 14. 1874. reached Fort Williams on the twenty-frst. and on the twenty-seventh appeared before the place. Gen. Coffee with. the cavalry. crossed the river and then sent over a detachment to set fire to the village. and which made q wig erous attack on the rear of the Indian line. At the same time two pieces of artillery opened on the breastworks in frunt. and at noon the Tennesseans
 moved to the assault of them. The struggle at tho breastworks was des- perate. and lasted for some minutes; but the whites thronged over. and the Indians slowly fell back to the shelter fo the undergrowsh. Present vigorous ly, they took refuge in the reedds and thick cts on the river bank. Jackson Nent a flag of truse to obtain their surrender, but they fired on t. Torches were thrown into the thickets. and the blaze drove many into the river. where they were killed by Coffee's troops. Night ciosed the conflict; Tehopeka was in ashes, and the hopes of the surviving Creeks lay fin the dust saturated by the blood of three-fourths of their bravesst warriors. A number were killed in the river, and 5S7 bodies were counted on the peninula. Of the Tenneseeeans thirty-two were killed. and ninety-ntne wounded; of the cherokees, eighteen were killed, and thirtv-six wounded; and of the tory Creeks. five were kill- od. and eleven were wounded. Jackson returned to Fort Williams the next day.
 sigmiacanes of the Battle.
 eAs indicated above. the wide signi- ncance of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend has been emphasized again and again by both local and general historians. Your Memorialists, will not. however, rest on this mere general statement. They have caused to be assembled the yiewe of representative historians and others. which it is believed will con- ciusiveIy show the far-reachlng char acter of the campaigns of Gen. Andrew Jackson, which terminated with the Battle Of Horseshoe Bend. These ex- pressions. If they have apy meaning at oil, place this enRagem6nt. not only among the great engngements of mod ern warfare but also among the epoch making Events In world history. The following are submitted:
 ColyAr,A. S., Live and Times of An- drew Jackson (isVD, vol. i. p. le2: "The loss was severe 4A Jackson's army. but 1t was destruction to the Creek Nation. and was the end Of ki1e campaign"
 George Bancroft's eulogy. June 27, is4E, in Monument to General Andrew 'sTn six i sflSgi m6htha of vehement action the most terrible Indian war in our annals waa brought to . close: the prophets wore silenced: the consecrated rfiegfon4 of the Greek nation reduced Through scenes of blood the avenging Thus Alabama, q part of ffsslssippi. a part of his own Tennessee and the highway to the Floridas. were his gifts to the Union. These were his trophies."
 HaIbert and Ball. The Greek War of 1874 (1ss51. the fullest general work on the subject. p 275:
 ''This battle may well be placed a. lonRside of that destruction that came upon the Peduods in New England. Of that. Maryn says. it was not battle 1t was e massacre The we'll informed reader will note more than one point of sIt1ilhrity between. old Pe0uod war and the Creek war. %Perhapg the one was as nesdful as the other. The one plotted out small tribe; the other sub dued great people, s-;} sstsi iss-
 N. KennAy and BaiL Indian Tribes fof sayorth American e(18423., vol if. p. 100;t asa'- fffsa' 7as 2a
 ''rhe whole fight was of the most desperate character. The waters of the Tallapoosa River were red with blood. Of nine hundred warriors led into that sanEuinary fight by Men@wa. only seventy survived, and one only. who fled at the first discharge of cannon, escaped unwounded."
 "Fiske, History Of the .. S. for Schools (1ss9). D. 2ss. says: Andrew Jackson. with his Tennessee troops and few United States regulars. made a bloody campaign of nearly seven months, ending with the great battle of sTallapoosa, (Horseshoe Bend in March. 1874, which finally broke the Indian power in the Southwest" "John Frost. Indian Battles. Captivi- ties, and Adventures (tS69), p. p.NS61: "rhis decisive victory, put an end to the Creek war. In the short period of i've months, from the first of November to the first of April. two thousand Of their warriors. among whom were their principal prophets and kings. had been -a. aR knv n a FaNh VfiiaRAa