Jackson leaves St. Marks to attack villages…

April 1818 CE

Jackson leaves St. Marks to attack villages along the Suwannee River, which are occupied primarily by fugitive slaves.

On April 12, the army finds a Red Stick village on the Econfina River, and attacks it.

Close to forty Red Sticks are killed, and about one hundred women and children are captured.

In the village, they find Elizabeth Stewart, the woman who had been captured in the attack on the supply boat on the Apalachicola River the previous November.

The army finds the villages on the Suwannee empty, many of the Black Seminoles having escaped to Tampa Bay to the maroon community of Angola.

Having destroyed the major Seminole and black villages, Jackson declares victory and sends the Georgia militiamen and the Lower Creeks home.

The remaining army now returns to Fort St. Marks.

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