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To: Squawk 8888

The article doesn’t mention the biggest losers of the war, the Shawnees and their allies who were decisively beaten at Horseshoe Bend. That victory opened up all of what was then the Southwest (Alabama, Mississippi and beyond) to settlement. Also, the plan of the British to forge an anti-American alliance between the Indians in the old Northwest and old Southwest was foiled.


6 posted on 12/12/2012 4:20:09 PM PST by Parmenio
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To: Parmenio

Correction, it was the Creeks who lost at Horseshoe Bend.


13 posted on 12/12/2012 4:37:07 PM PST by Parmenio
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**** the plan of the British to forge an anti-American alliance between the Indians in the old Northwest and old Southwest was foiled.***

I believe they tried it again working to get a treaty with the new nation of Texas, Mexico and Canada against the US, possibly due to conflict in the Oregon territories.

Texas was so horrified they immediately applied for Statehood with the US.

The US and Great Britain never had really friendly relations till Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (with Annie Oaakley) toured there.


22 posted on 12/12/2012 5:29:48 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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