British forces reached Florida's Apalachicola River in May 1814 with a plan to arm American Indians and maroons (self-liberated former slaves) to fight in the War of 1812. Instead, they were greeted by thousands of Red Stick Creek men, women, and children who were starving and dying in the swamps of Northwest Florida and South Alabama following Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. In this segment, historian Dale Cox - author of the recent book "The Fort at Prospect Bluff" - discusses the seldom mentioned human catastrophe that took place in the late spring of 1814 - and what the British tried to do to relieve it.
6 авг 2023
