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Events on Monday 30 August 1813 1
1813Fort Mims MassacreCreek warriors attack an American stockade in AlabamaA force of Red Stick Creek warriors attacked Fort Mims, a stockade of American settlers and allied Creek in the Mississippi Territory, killing several hundred people. The massacre triggered a full-scale American military response and drew Andrew Jackson into the Creek War. It remains one of the deadliest attacks on American settlers in frontier history.