… also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War ended on this date in 1814, when Major General Andrew Jackson signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson. According to the Library of Congress:
The agreement provided for the surrender of twenty-three million acres of Creek land to the United States. This vast territory encompassed more than half of present-day Alabama and part of southern Georgia.
The war began on August 30, 1813, when a faction of Creeks known as the Red Sticks attacked a contingent of 553 American settlers at Lake Tensaw, Alabama, north of Mobile. In response, Jackson led 5,000 militiamen in the destruction of two Creek villages, Tallasahatchee and Talladega.
On March 27, 1814, Jackson’s forces destroyed the Creek defenses at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Eight hundred Creek warriors were killed and 500 women and children captured.
The war had begun largely as a conflict among traditional Creeks, the Red Sticks, and those more accepting of white encroachment. Many of the latter supported and fought with Jackson, but they too were sold out in the 1814 treaty. Eventually the Creeks were moved to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) as part of the Indian Removal Act.
The Creek people prefer now to be known as The Muscogee (Creek) Nation.