The year of 1812 was a significant year for Mississippi because the people played a significant role in the War of 1812. When many people think about the war, they think about the major powers in the United States fighting, but no one thinks about the part that the Mississippians played. In the war, Native Americans and Mississippi’s people fought and were affected by the war. Many people only think that the war affected Americans, British, and French soldiers, but the Native Americans were also affected by this war. The Choctaw, who were lead by Pushmataha, were an army of 135 men. This group was made up of Choctaw leaders and four groups of Choctaws. They defeated the Red Sticks on Burnt Corn Creek in December 1813. Their military …show more content…
Pushmataha and 795 of his men journeyed to Fort Montgomery and mixed with the United States soldiers. They finished the Creek war. In December of 1814, British troops went to Louisiana with the goal of capturing New Orleans to put an end to the War of 1812. About 60 Choctaw warriors joined the battle under Andrew Jackson and they held of the British from getting to the American line. The Choctaw caused over half of the casualties on the British during another small battle. The Americans won the Battle of New Orleans with a couple casualties. This ended the War of 1812. Along with the rest of the south, Mississippi was also involved in war of 1812, which started on November 3rd. Mississippi’s soldiers began to march to Baton Rouge;. General Clayborne, who was the officer of the Mississippi territory, sent a letter to Cowels Mead, speaker of the house, in compliance if the determination of the government concerning the division of Mississippi’s military in the United States. He asked the tanks of Mississippi to execute to the line up. The assembly began in January at Baton Rouge, of the first Regiment Mississippi infantry. This started in June, the soldiers marched to the Tombigbee. There was a lot of concern about the actions of the Creek Native Americans. The British army was fighting in the battles with the Creeks and took the eyes of of the Mississippi people. After the Creek war, the Mississippi military went a fought in a few more battles and peace treaties in 1814 and the war of 1812
When Jackson heard of the attack on Jones’ ships on December 15 he issued crises orders to forces nearby. One General by the name of Coffee received orders from Jackson stating “You must not sleep until you reach me or arrive withink striking distance.” The next day Jackson placed New Orleans under Martial Law. When General Coffee received his orders he immediately gathered his 1250 men and where off to help Jackson. Each man brought with him a hunting knife and long rifle. The Tenessee brigade commanded by Major General William Caroll arrived on 21st December. Only one in ten of them had a firearm.
Secondly, it is important to discuss the people of the state. According to Wikipedia, the 2010 U.S. census stated, “ Mississippi is an ethnic diverse state with 59% of the residents being White, 37% African American, 0.5% American Indian, 0.9% Asian American and 2% other. With this many ethnic group, the area is filled with cultural activities to promote their ethnic backgrounds. Prior to the 1830s there were many tribes of Indians in Mississippi. However, in the 1830s the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, most of the Indian population was moved to Oklahoma. Now, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is located in Philadelphia, Mississippi and the surrounding counties”. According to the same census, “Mississippi has the highest proportion of African American in the nation.
After the U.S gained their independence form Britain, they faced the greatest obstacle that would threaten their independence. This was a second war fought against Great Britain called the War of 1812. The war was fought on land and on sea and lasted almost three years. There were many forces that led Americans to declare war on Britain in 1812.
...s to the English. This war was called the Pequot War and it was as deadly as the Powhatan-Indian war.
In the first battle, Battle of Horseshoe Bend, he defeated Chief Menewa in the Creek War. Jackson was able to defeat Chief Menewa by using a small army of current soldiers, and volunteers (“millercenter.com”). The next battle Jackson was involved in was the Battle of New Orleans. In this battle, Andrew Jackson attacked a small British outpost with a small army of slaves, volunteers, and even pirates!(“americaslibery.gov”). After the victory at the outpost, Jackson moved on to a larger fort in Pensacola (“americaslibery.gov”).
The war the American Revolution caused many British settlers to push westward. These settlers began to compete with the Cherokees for land. The Cherokee were glad when the Proclamation of 1763 was put into effect. This prevented settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Most of the settlers became enemies. The settlers attacked the Cherokees, destroying many towns and killing many people. This attack caused the Cherokees to end their participation in the American Revolution. The American colonist continued to take over the Cherokee land.
The Sioux band tougher led by Little Big Foot. They were heading to Pine RidgeReservation in South Dakota, when the army stopped them and held them at gun pointovernight. Big Foot’s group contained about 300 people two-thirds of them were women and children. While the soldiers numbered around 500 and were armed with automatic weapons. The next morning when the army began to disarm the Indians a shot rang out then the gun fire began leaving about 200 Indians dead in the snow. Thirty soldiers were also killed in the massacre. The soldiers that lost there lives were most likely killed by their own men in friendly fire. Wounded Knee is said to have been the last battle of the war but it was not so much a battle as it was a massacre. It was in fact the last exchange of fire between the army and the Sioux.
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.
Although America did not win The War of 1812, due to the Battle of Lake Erie, they did not lose it. The war was caused by the impressment of American soldiers, blockades on American trade, and Indian slaughters on the American frontier. James Madison launched The War of 1812 so that the United States would not be taken advantage of, but by doing so, he took on an army fifty times bigger than his own. When it looked like America would lose the war, Oliver Hazard Perry turned the tables and won the deciding battle that allowed James Monroe to sign the Treaty of Ghent and bring peace to the two countries. Although the original conflicts were not solved, they dissipated over time. The War of 1812 may not have solved many problems, but it proved to American’s that they could stand together and prevail over injustice.
The Indian removal was so important to Jackson that he went back to Tennessee to have the first negotiations in person. He gave the Indians a couple simple alternatives. Alternatives like to submit to state authority, or migrate beyond the Mississippi. Jackson Offered generous aid on one hand and while holding the threat of subjugation in the other. The Chickasaws and Choctaws submitted quickly. The only tribe that resisted until the end was the Cherokees. President Jackson’s presidency was tarnished by the way the U.S. government handled the Native Americans. Although financially, and economically Jackson truly was a good leader, some people view him in a negative way because of the “Indian Removal Act.”
The Creek Indians, one of the Five Civilized Tribes, “was composed of many tribes, each with a different name.” The Creeks formed a loose confederacy with other tribes before European contact, “but it was strengthened significantly in the 1700s and 1800s.” The confederacy “included the Alabama, Shawnee, Natchez, Tuskegee, as well as many others.” There were two sections of Creeks, the Upper and Lower Creeks. The Lower Creeks occupied land in east Georgia, living near rivers and the coast. “The Upper Creeks lived along rivers in Alabama.” Like many other Native Americans, ...
1812. No fighting took place at Fort Gibson it was mainly a munitions storage fort.
The Cherokee Nation was the largest of Five Civilized Tribes of the southeast. They are a people of Iroquois descent. The Cherokee who were known as "Ani'-Yun'wiya" or "principal people" migrated to the southeast from the Great Lakes region. They held more than 40,000 square miles of land in the south by 1650 with a population estimated at well over 30,000. Similar to other Native Americans of the southeast, their nation was a confederacy of towns each under the rule of a supreme chief. In short, the Cherokee culture and society thrived and prospered in the Americas prior to contact with the Europeans. No society has ever made a more dramatic cultural shift then that of the Cherokee. This, a culture that had suffered pronounced side effects of Europe even prior to the introduction to European man. With the introduction of man onto the Americas also came something unknown to them, disease. Unable to counter these viruses many of the Cherokee were wiped out. Reports state that between 40 and 50% of their culture died from diseases such as: smallpox, typhus, and measles. With the sudden lose of population, there is no doubt that this population also lost leadership and knowledge through these deaths. Once the obstacle of disease had been passed came the addition of a new opponent: the European man.
When the war had begun to end neither side had really accomplished what they wanted to do during the war and neither side had gained what they wanted either. This left the war in a confusing place. In the end, the United States gave up all of their demands to end the impressment, and Britain vowed to leave Canada’s borders unchanged and also abandoned their efforts to create an Indian state in the northwest (History.com, 2009). On December 24, 1814, the treaty of Ghent was signed and peace was to be implemented. However, on December 25th, 1814, the British attacked New Orleans and were defeated by President Andrew Jackson’s army (History.com, 2009). Since the Americans were able to defeat the British during the attack on New Orleans, it left them with a sense of pride and victory. Although the United States did not accomplish what they wanted to throughout the war and did not receive all the demands they had asked Great Britain for, at the end of the war, Americans were left prideful and
Americans and the United States government. It was at this battle that Chief Joseph was