Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Alabama

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Where the Creek Trail of Tears Began is ‪@TwoEggTV‬'s detailed examination of the 1814 battle that broke the back of the Red Stick movement in the Muscogee or Creek Nation. An army of nearly 1,000 Red Sticks, determined to save their people, traditional ways, and families, was overwhelmed but never surrendered to a U.S. army more than three times its size in a horseshoe-shaped bend of Alabama's Tallapoosa River. More than 800 warriors died in the fighting that marked the first step on the Trail of Tears for the Muscogee Creek people and the first step to the White House for the U.S. commander, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson. This presentation was first prepared at the request of a special program of the U.S. Army at what is now Fort Moore (then Fort Benning). We have added additional information to it and are pleased to make it available to you.