F. To provide case studies in the relationship between technology and doctrine.
The Red Sticks leader Menewa had a good understanding of the military doctrine that Gen. Jackson was going to use. The weapons of war in 1814 where muskets and cannons limited by range. To render the U.S. cannon fire and musket fire ineffective. The leaders had the Red Sticks Creeks build breastwork that zigzag across the peninsula with open ground to the front. The breastwork was around five to eight feet in height, with inner locking fire port for muskets reducing the warrior exposure to fire. The Red Sticks know that the U.S. military would make a frontal attack. This breastwork and the interlocking fire made it almost impossible for a forward charge on line
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To get there he know that he need a major military battle win, because up to that time all the President have been generals and won battles. He was a very hard and straight forward leader that commanded the respect of his men. Gen Jackson did want to win the battle decisively and no condition surrender for the enemy. Right before the battle of Horse Bend, he was just a Colonel of only have of the Tennessee militias. To Colonel Cocke attacking a village of Red Sticks that surrendered to Jackson already he lost his army and it was gave to Colonel Jackson making him a General. Then he was dispatched to take care the last of the resistance of the Red Sticks. By the time the Battle at Horse Shoe Bend took place Gen Jackson received under his command regular 39th U.S. Infantry giving Gen Jackson legitimacy as a military commander. Gen Jackson departure from Fort Stother on his offence campaign. He halted his advance to build a supply depo at Fort Williams for his Army on their march to Tohopkea. Gen Jackson was not just out to defeat the Red Stick at Tohopkea, but to destroy them completely. After the end of the Creek War, Gen Jackson was made the Major Gen of the 7th Military District and forced the Creek to sign a peace treaty that would make the Creek give up land to pay back the U.S. Government for the war with no regards for the friendly Creeks that help him to defeat the Red Sticks army. This …show more content…
Their pick this strong hold area for it natural barriers. The Red Stick pick Horseshoe bend because it was a peninsula create natural by the river. The river was around 120 yard roughly a football in with. Then the Red Stick closed of the opening to the peninsula with a breastwork creating a chock-point and killing field. This was a down fall for the Red Stick warriors they would have no escape route if needed. To cut of the escape of the Red Sticks Gen Jackson order Gen Coffee mounted infantry and mixed Indians militia to the south side of the peninsula to surrounding and isolate the Red Sticks army and village. The Red Sticks was not expected to be attack in the rear from the river, that is why large number of the Red Stick’s warriors where forward in defends the breastwork from Gen Jackson’s army. The Indian militia that Gen Jackson siege the initiative and swam the river. Frist the friendly Indians cut off the escape of the Red Sticks by cutting lose their escape canoes. Then they continued to the village and started to burn it. Gen Jackson seen the seen an opportunity of the diversion in the rear area of the Red Sticks to order his men to fix bayonets and charge the breastwork and fight muzzle to muzzle shooting through the firing ports. After breaching the breastwork obstacle Gen Jackson defeating the Red Sticks
Throughout Jackson's two terms as President, Jackson used his power unjustly. As a man from the Frontier State of Tennessee and a leader in the Indian wars, Jackson loathed the Native Americans. Keeping with consistency, Jackson found a way to use his power incorrectly to eliminate the Native Americans. In May 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act. This act required all tribes east of the Mississippi River to leave their lands and travel to reservations in the Oklahoma Territory on the Great Plains. This was done because of the pressure of white settlers who wanted to take over the lands on which the Indians had lived. The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. The East Coast was burdened with new settlers and becoming vastly populated. President Andrew Jackson and the government had to find a way to move people to the West to make room. In 1830, a new state law said that the Cherokees would be under the jurisdiction of state rather than federal law. This meant that the Indians now had little, if any, protection against the white settlers that desired their land. However, when the Cherokees brought their case to the Supreme Court, they were told that they could not sue on the basis that they were not a foreign nation. In 1832, though, on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokees were a "domestic dependent nation," and therefore, eligible to receive federal protection against the state. However, Jackson essentially overruled the decision. By this, Jackson implied that he had more power than anyone else did and he could enforce the bill himself. This is yet another way in which Jackson abused his presidential power in order to produce a favorable result that complied with his own beliefs. The Indian Removal Act forced all Indians tribes be moved west of the Mississippi River. The Choctaw was the first tribe to leave from the southeast.
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Point 3: What a redoubt looks like, what is its function, and what does it take to build one? Info about Fort Moore.
The British chose to attack the Americans from the north by way of Isle aux Pois in the mouth of the Pearl River because this was the only only stable water they had found that ships could ride and anchor. When hearing that the british where coming this way, Lieutenant Thomas Ap Catesby Jones and his five gunboats went to try and Barackade the Rigolets trying to make sure they wouldn’t enter. His 185 men and 23 guns awaited the British. At 10:30 on December 14th 1814 three columns of British ships, 42 to 45, armed with 43 guns and 1,200 under the command of Captain Lockyer met the American blockade. Fierce fighting began and the British had finally captured the five American boats. Losses were 17 British and 6 Americans killed, 77 British and 35 Americans wounded. This gave Gerneral Andrew Jackson six days more to improve his defenses. The British at the very beginning of the war had demolished almost all of Jacksons sea power. Jackson only had the Carolina, Louisiana, and one gunboat left.
Born March 15, 1767 on the Carolina frontier, Andrew Jackson would eventually rise from poverty to politics after the War of 1812 where he earned national fame as a military hero. Jackson won the popular vote in the 1829 election and became the seventh United States President. As President, Jackson sought out to be a representative of the common man. Jackson remarks in his veto message of July 10, 1832 that, “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” Andrew Jackson put in place the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This act forced Natives off their homelands and onto the lands west of the Mississippi River. They encountered a journey, called the Trail of Tears, where they traveled by foot to what would be their new homes, which transformed the lives of thousands of Native Americans. The President’s intentions were to move all Natives west of the Mississippi River to open up the land to American settlers.
Clark, during the 1770’s, was helping Kentucky defend itself from Native Americans. At the time, Clark was transporting gunpowder to the frontier between the Americans and the British. The Native Americans, who lived in the Northwest, disliked the Americans in the Northwest and their claim on Kentucky and with the British backing, waged war with the Americans. Clark was now in charge of defending the settlements and was promoted to major. Clark then made plans in taking British held forts in the region and persuaded Governor Patrick Henry to support him in capturing the forts. Clark had won the support of Patrick Henry, was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and was given command of the mission (“George Clark” 1). With the command of the mission, Clark had lead 175 men who traveled to Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois in six days. The fort was almost defenseless and was easily taken with Clark’s force. Clark had sent Captain Leonard Helm to capture Fort Sackville, after learning that the fort was undefended from American spies. Leonard Helm had then captured the fort, but was taken back by Henry Hamilton shortly after. Henry Hamilton, the famous British “Hair Buyer”, used militia and Native Americans to take Fort Sackville. In the winter, Clark lead a force of 170 men ...
In 1812 a war began. Jackson was elected the general of Tennessee Militia in 1802. Then the troops were needed on the southern and western frontiers, the War Department sent Jackson along with Tennessee Militia. Jackson became a war hero, in doing so, he surprisingly defended New Orleans against a full-scale attack by the British forcing them to withdraw form Louisiana. The unexpected victory launched an enormous sense of national pride as America began to realize its true potential.
The enemy increased so greatly in numbers that we were forced into the timber for protection, but I firmly believe that if, at that moment, all our companies had been together the Indians would have been driven from their village (Windolph 166).
as the Indians they were able to out maneuver them and render them unable to protect
General Gage considered his force too small to effectively attack the Rebels and hold the countryside outside of Boston. At the same time he became concerned that the surrounding heights of Dorchester and Charlestown provided an excellent opportunity for Rebels to place cannon ...
Prior to the events of Bunker Hill, a council of civilians and military leaders in Cambridge decided on the construction of a redoubt on Bunker Hill and the surrounding area to prevent the free flow of the British naval fleet through the Boston Harbor and into the city of Boston. The intent behind the structures was to systematically make it more difficult for the British to occupy Boston and eventually force their removal from the area. The American Army understood there was little chance for victory by invading Boston due to the amount of British soldiers quartered in the city. The American militiamen understood that in order to win the war they must attrite their foe over the course of multiple small engagement...
Jackson’s political career came to a temporary end at the beginning of the 1800s. Longing for adventure and to relive his boyhood life, Jackson entered into military life early in the century, and would slowly become an American war hero. Jackson’s first claim to fame on the battlefield came in 1814 at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, where he fought against the Seminoles of Florida, who had massacred a few hundre...
As president, Andrew Jackson sought to act as the direct representative of a common man. As a child, he received a periodic education, took on reading law for approximately two years, and then became a lawyer in Tennessee as a teenager. Jackson flourished greatly in buying and using slaves for common laboring, some even considered him to be a racist. He served briefly in the Senate, became the first man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives and became major General in the War of 1812. It was then that Jackson acquired the status of a national hero when the defeat of the British at New Orleans.
He was the first president to be born in a log cabin, to be an orphan by the age of fifteen, and to be hardened by decades of military campaigns (195). In his first term he exercised the use of veto power more than all previous presidents combined (196). He ran the government the same way he ran his army (196). Andrew Jackson resolved the issue of breaking up the Union and was able to postpone it for another 30 years (197). He also moved all of the United States deposits from the Second National Bank and put them into state and local banks (198). Another thing he did while in office was to begin to move the Indians to Oklahoma (199). In 1830, the General Removal Act was passed (199). The next act passed was the Removal Act against the Choctaws (200). By 1833 nearly 11,000 were removed, and in 1838 nearly all Chickasaws were removed (200). In December 1985 the Cherokee Nation signed a treaty to move west, and in 1838 they walked the Trail of Tears, where 4,000 out of 18,000 died (201). Andrew Jackson’s policies moved 45,690 Indians across the Mississippi (201). This was his most controversial legacy
During the summer of 1874, the U. S. Army launched a campaign to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indian tribes from the Southern Plains and enforce their relocation to reservations in Indian Territory. The actions of 1874 were unlike any prior attempts by the Army to pacify this area of the western frontier. The Red River War led to the end of an entire way of life for the Southern Plains tribes and brought about a new chapter in Texas history.