Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 323.119738507309034 EAN: 9781592286812 ISBN: 159228681X Label: The Lyons Press Manufacturer: The Lyons Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: April 01, 2005 Publisher: The Lyons Press Sales Rank: 650573 Studio: The Lyons Press
A gripping account of the Creek War of 1813, the Seminole War of 1818, and the tragic displacement by the U.S. Army of the defeated Creeks and other Native Americans to marginal lands west of the Mississippi.
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In Bitterness And In Tears: Andrew Jackson's Destruction Of The Creeks And Seminoles by historian Sean Michael O'Brien is a definitive study of the Creek War of 1813-1814 and the First Seminole War of 1818. Closely examining history from both American and Native points of view, In Bitterness And In Tears examines in turn the civil war between Muscogee (Creek) factions that initiated the conflict; Red Sticks' massacre of over 250 whites and mixed-bloods at Fort Mims (the worst frontier massacre in ... Read More
