| In the Creek War on this day, a faction of the Creek nation of Native Americans swept down upon frontiersmen at a fortification at Lake Tensaw, north of Mobile, Alabama. The faction, known as the Red Sticks, preyed upon white settlements and fought with those Creeks who opposed them. The Fort Mims Massacre on this day, in which some 250 frontiersmen were killed, stirred the American South into a vigorous response. A militia led by General Andrew Jackson destroyed two Indian villages that fall: ... |