Horseshoe Bend

Horseshoe Bend a turn on the Tallapoosa River, near Dadeville, E central Ala., site of a battle on Mar. 27, 1814, in which the Creeks, led by chief William Weatherford , were significantly defeated by a militia under the command of Andrew Jackson. As a result, large parts of Alabama and Georgia were subsequently opened to settlement. Horseshoe Bend National Military Park is there (see National Parks and Monuments , table).

Horseshoe Bend, Battle of (March 27–28, 1814) a battle in the Creek War (1811–14) between U.S. forces and the Creek in present-day Alabama. In response to U.S. intervention in Creek government, the Red Stick Creek attacked Creek villages allied with the United States as well as Fort Mims, where several U.S. citizens were killed. Following the Fort Mims incident, the United States entered the Creek civil war under Gen. Andrew Jackson. Five thousand American troops attacked the Red Stick at Tohopeka, near the Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River. The Creek suffered more than 800 losses, and in the wake of the battle the Creek Nation accepted the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ceded 22 million acres of Creek land to the U.S. government.