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Cozzens, Peter

A brutal reckoning : Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South Peter Cozzens - First edition - New York Alfred A. Knopf 2023 - xxii, 434 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates illustrations (some color), maps 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the ashes of the Entrada -- A rope of sand -- Between three fires -- The sweets of civilization -- The hungry years -- Rise of the Red Sticks -- Civil war -- Stark mad -- Terror in the Tensaw -- The emergency of Old Hickory -- Invasion of the Tennesseans -- The Red Sticks resilient -- All we lack is powder and lead -- Tennesseans to the rear -- Jackson courts disaster -- A slow, laborious slaughter -- An elusive peace -- Betrayal at Fort Jackson -- A scalp for a scalp -- Shades of genocide.

"From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable United States for control over the Deep South"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9780525659457 0525659455

LCCN: 2022020367

Subjects--Personal Names:
Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 --Military leadership

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1800-1899

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Creek War--1813-1814
Creek War--Campaigns--1813-1814
Creek Indians--History--Southern States
Creek Indians--History--Southern States--19th century
Indians, Treatment of--Southern States.
Command of troops.
Creek Indians.
Indians, Treatment of.
Military campaigns.
Territorial expansion.
History--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Territorial expansion.
Southern States
United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:

LC Class. No.: E83.813 / .C69 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 973.5238 Coz 15