Creek War

noun

, U.S. History.

an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.

He fought under Jackson in the war of 1812, and was desperately wounded in the Creek War.

It is not our purpose to give a history of the Creek war, but only to note the part which the Cherokee had in it.

He continued in this service until the close of the Creek War in 1814.

The rocks round the creek war repeatin' it, whenst I crossed the f oot-bredge.

The Creek war over, Jackson went back to Tennessee, a noted, successful soldier.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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