The second westward advance of Floyd's troops…
January 1814 CE
Along the way they fortify Fort Bainbridge and Fort Hull on the federal road.
On January 26, they set up a camp on the Callabee Creek near the abandoned site of Autossee.
Red Stick chiefs William Weatherford, Paddy Walsh, High-head Jim, and William McGillivray raise a combined force of at least thirteen hundred warriors to stop the advance.
This is to be the largest combined force raised by the Creek during the entire war.
On January 29, the Red Sticks launch an attack on the American camp at dawn.
After daylight, Floyd's army repulses the attack.
Casualty figures vary for Floyd's force—seventeen to twenty-two killed, one hundred and thirty-two to one hundred and forty-seven wounded.
Floyd estimates Red Stick casualties as thirty-seven killed, including chief High-head Jim.
Georgia retreats to Fort Mitchell with Floyd, who is severely wounded in the leg.
The "Battle of Calebee Creek" is Georgia's last offensive operation of the war.
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