Battle of Horseshoe Bend 1814
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Battle of Horseshoe Bend, or Battle of Tohopeka
- Tallapoosa County, Alabama March 27, 1814
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collision of Cultures, National Parks Service. (based on the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.)
- Date: 27 Mar 1814
- Location: near Dadeville, AL
- Victor: US and allied Native American
- Total force 1000 to 1200 warriors -est.
- Casualties 557 to 800 killed[1]
Maj. General Andrew Jackson's Forces
Maj. General Andrew Jackson commanding
- Captain Jesse Bean's Company of Mounted Spies
- Major L. P. Montgomery's 39th U.S. Infantry Regulars
- General George Doherty's Brigade
- Colonel Ewen Allison's 1st Regiment of East Tennessee Militia
- Captain Everett's Company
- Captain King's Company
- Captain Loughmiller's Company
- Captain Winsell's Company
- Captain Hampton's Company (was at Fort Armstrong)
- Colonel Samuel Bunch's 1st Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry
- Captain Francis Berry's Company
- Captain Nicholas Gibbs' Company
- Captain Jones Griffin's Company
- Captain Moses Davis' Company
- Captain Joseph Duncan's Company
- Captain John Houk's Company
- General Thomas Johnson' Brigade
- Colonel Stephen Copeland's 3rd Regiment of Tennessee Militia
- Captain Moses Thompson's Company
- Captain Allen Wilkinson's Company
- Colonel Richard C. Napier's 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia
- Captain James McMurray's Company
- Colonel John Brown's East Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen
- General John Coffee's Brigade
- Colonel Robert Dyer's Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen
- Captain David Deadrick's Artillery company, two six-pound cannon
- Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaws warriors
- Total force unknown
- Casualties 26 to 32 killed, 99 to 111 wounded
- Total force unknown
Creek Warriors "Red Sticks"
Menawa -War Leader
- Oakfuskie or Ocfuske Town
- Oakahoga or Oakchoie Town
- New Yorcau or New Yanka Town
- Hillabee Town
- The Fish Pond Town
- Eufaula or Eufaulahatche Town
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