THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Cherokees
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Pirates
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Red Stick Creeks
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White Stick Creeks
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonel John Williams led the assault accompanied by a young Sam Houston, the future patriarch of Texas. As soon as the 39th scaled the fortification the violence turned from a battle into a slaughter.
Detailed explanation-2: -On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under Major General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, effectively ending the Creek War.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Red Sticks, who derived their name from their red ceremonial war clubs, were a nativist or conservative faction of Creeks, predominantly from the Upper Towns, that rejected the relationship (with its subsequent selective cultural exchange) that the Lower Towns were fostering with the nascent United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -Just two weeks after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieves the greatest American victory of the War of 1812 at the Battle of New Orleans.