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Author:

Cozzens, Peter, 1957- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xxii, 434 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-471) and index.

Contents:

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:

"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:

0525659455 : HRD
9780525659457 : HRD

LCCN:

2022020367

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