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A brutal reckoning : Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South Cover Image Book Book

A brutal reckoning : Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South

Cozzens, Peter 1957- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780525659457
  • ISBN: 0525659455
  • ISBN: 9780593082706
  • ISBN: 0593082702
  • Physical Description: print
    464 p.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Summary, etc.: "From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable United States for control over the Deep South"--

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Subject: Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 Military leadership
Creek War, 1813-1814
Creek War, 1813-1814 Campaigns
Creek Indians Southern States History 19th century
Creek Indians Southern States History
Indians, Treatment of Southern States
United States Territorial expansion

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Southbury Public Library.

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Southbury Public Library 973.5238 COZZENS (Text) 34019155403348 Adult New Nonfiction Available -

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