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  1. Dale County, Alabama is named for an Alabama Daniel Boone - Alabama Pioneers

    […]  General Samuel Dale – canoe fight […]

  2. Do you know why Greenville, Alabama was first named Buttsville? Here's the answer. - Alabama Pioneers

    […] first county seat was at Fort Dale, a fortification that was named for Sam Dale, who fought to defend the area during the Creek War. The site of Fort Dale lies on the north of the […]

  3. A treasured find, actual autobiography of Jeremiah Austill who was born in 1794 - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his actual words in this autobiography from him. The […]

  4. Amazing! First-hand account of the legendary canoe fight by participant Jeremiah Austill - Alabama Pioneers

    […] and the second part of the article transcribed here tells his personal version of the legendary canoe fight.   (continued from Part […]

  5. Actual words of Jeremiah Austill about the building of the first forts in Alabama - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his actual words in this autobiography from him. The […]

  6. Jeremiah Austill traveled frequently in the early 1800s from Alabama to Baltimore and New York - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his actual words in this autobiography from him. The […]

  7. Margaret Austill's (b. 1805) tells about life in the Alabama frontier in her own words. - Alabama Pioneers

    […] when I found this autobiography of Margaret Eades. She was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In this autobiography we hear her actual […]

  8. In this second part of Margaret Austill's story, she tells of the fear of Indian attacks [photographs, video] - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In this autobiography we hear her actual […]

  9. Margaret Ervin Austill, born 1805 tells of life inside a fort in Clarke County, Alabama - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In this autobiography we hear her actual […]

  10. Which county is named for an Alabama Daniel Boone? - Alabama Pioneers

    […]  General Samuel Dale – canoe fight […]

  11. Anne Terry

    So many sides of the story to tell! So many broken treaties! So many divisions amongst groups within the Creek Nation! Divide and conquer?

  12. Michael Stallings

    the creek indian war was mostly a creek civi war hardly anyone mentions that almost half the people at ft mims were other creeks….it was just another excuse in the goverments excuse in the attempted genocide of the indians

    1. Michael Stallings

      and one more note no one ever mentions what the white settlers did to the creeks to provoke the attack in the first place

  13. Robert Robinson

    Imagine having your land stolen.

  14. Florence Tarrant

    Leonard Tarrant was the Creek Indian agent from Talladega in 1834. He got with the tribe and got 12 Indian boys together to attend the Choctaw Academy in Tennessee to be educated and taught a profession . The Tarrants’ played a big part in Ala. history, but finding any information about them is just impossible.

  15. Ronald A. Jacobson

    Need to send this one to the City Commisioners in Mobile,Al.
    They know what it’s like to fight such a battle, in such a small place!

  16. Randy Rooks

    Andrew Jackson was a liar and broke his promises to the very people that helped him win this battle !

  17. Jerry Hopper

    Awesome read…

  18. Marie Wehunt Frazier

    Such a same – reading your heading Mims massacre is enough for me to not want to read this article. Genocide at its best.

  19. Steve Stacey

    Memories of E.S. Liles 1941: Grand-nephew of Jim Smith. Jim Smith told that 11 indians were on the raft, Smith, Dale, & Austill were on the bank, having just eaten coon meat prepared by an elderly Negro man. His remaining story is consistent with many accounts. Jim Smith’s trusty flintlock was damaged in the fight. The stock was broken and the barrel bent. The gun remained at Liles’ grandmother’s home in Conecuh, then passed to grandmother’s sister, Aunt Reny, then Betsy Dickson, d/o Aunt Reny got the gun where E.S. Lile’s father came into possession. The gun was sent to Crutiner’s Gun Shop in Montgomery for repair. The barrel was straightened after both end were removed, smoothed and rerifled creating a shorter weapon. A patent breech was installed along with a new stock and the weapon fired perfectly. Monroe Fortner bought the gun for $13. at E.S. Lilies’s home near Mt. Union, Ala. Having moved to Covington county on the road to Dale, the family was visited on several occasions by Sam Dale. E.S. Liles went to Mobile to attend the funeral of the granddaughter (or niece) of Jere Austell. (may not be accurate)The visit was the last by any member of the Jim Smith family with any participant of the canoe fight. The weapon location is said to be in Evergreen in possession of a lady named Darby in 1941.

  20. Wayne Swindall

    You mention everyone in the canoe but Caesar. Who was he? What happened to him after the conflict? It seems he played his role as well as the others.

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