Creek War Flag
date: label: date made
content: 1813
label: used date
content: 1813
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Cream-colored silk, with thirteen stars above an eagle. Just inside the border is an embroidered floral pattern of pink roses, green leaves, and gold-brown stems. Near the lower border is the motto "God Armeth The Patriot."
label: Description
content: Specific History
label: Description
content: Captain David Deaderick is credited with risking his life in the thick of combat to save this flag when it fell from the hands of a wounded standard bearer.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: The Creek War began on August 30, 1813, when a faction of Creek known as the Red Sticks attacked a contingent of 553 American settlers at Lake Tensaw, Alabama, north of Mobile. The British were believed to be a main ally of the Indians. In response to the Alabama attack, Jackson led 5,000 militiamen in the destruction of two Creek villages, Tallasahatchee and Talladega. The fighting lasted into the next year, culminating in Jackson’s troops destroying the Creek defenses at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
label: Description
content: On March 27, 1814 the battle ended with 800 Creek warriors killed and 500 women and children captured. On August 9, 1814, Major General Andrew Jackson signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson ending the Creek War. The agreement provided for the surrender of twenty-three million acres of Creek land to the United States. This vast territory encompassed more than half of present-day Alabama and part of southern Georgia.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Tennessee
label: used in
content: United States: Alabama
label: used in
content: United States: Georgia
topic: label: Subject
content: Flags
label: related event
content: Creek War
label: related event
content: Expansion and Reform
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Agnes Kennett Brent
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.35696
label: catalog number
content: 35696
label: accession number
content: 100522
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flag
label: Other Terms
content: flag; Military; Collar; Bn Nashville
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 66 in x 70 in; 167.64 cm x 177.8 cm