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Many of the "Red Sticks," as the Creek braves were called, fled beyond the Florida border; but many among them the astute half-breed Weathersford, who had ordered the assault on Fort Mims came in and surrendered. Fort Jackson, built in the river fork, became an outpost of American sovereignty in the very heart of the Creek district.
On the side of the whites only fifty-five were killed and about three times as many wounded. This signal defeat ended forever the power of the Cree nation, once the leading Indian power of the Gulf region. Such of the chiefs as survived surrendered. Among them was Weathersford, their valiant half-breed leader.
Mounted on his well-known gray horse, famed for its speed and endurance, he rode to the door of Jackson's tent. The old soldier looked up to see before him this famous warrior, tall, erect, majestic, and dignified. "I am Weathersford," he said; "late your enemy, now your captive." From without the tent came fierce cries of "Kill him! kill him!"
He then invited the chief into his tent, where he promised him the aid he asked for and freedom for himself. "I do not war with women and children," he said. So corn was sent to the suffering women, and Weathersford was allowed to mount his good gray steed and ride away as he had come.
A thousand Creek Indians had broken into the carelessly guarded fort, and perpetrated one of the most horrid massacres in the history of Indian wars. Weathersford, the leader of the Indians, tried to stop the ferocious warriors in their dreadful work, but they surrounded him and threatened him with their tomahawks while they glutted to the full their thirst for blood.
In the course of the War of 1812, however, moved by the English and by a visit from Tecumseh, they suddenly rose, and on August 30, 1813, under the leadership of Weathersford, they attacked Fort Mims, a stockade thirty-five miles north of Mobile. The five hundred and fifty-three men, women, and children in this place were almost completely massacred.
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