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  • HerbAvoreTravelerCoastal Crescent, 2018
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    • Day 36
    • Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:56 PM
    • ☁️ 13 °C
    • Altitude: 587 ft
    • United StatesHorseshoe Bend Battle Ground32°58’18” N  85°44’15” W
    The eyes of a killer?

    Ethnic Cleansing [Auburn]

    January 28, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Horseshoe Bend Nat'l Battlefield is one of those parks you want to hurry through. The things that happened there are that horrendous. Andrew Jackson learned the art of ethnic cleansing here where over 800 Creek Indians were encircled and killed at a cost of only 50 Americans. This was the largest massacre of native Americans in US history. His success here in 1814 launched him on a lifelong campaign of killing and later removing every Indian east of the Mississippi River. Some people say he was just a man of his time when colonists wanted land to settle, but hard to fathom the brutality.Read more

    John Lovaas

    John LovaasThis is one of the Indian stories one hears litttle about....too little it seems.

    2/1/18Reply
    John Lovaas

    John LovaasAre there any remnants of the Indians who survived, if there were any, in the region? Monuments to them? Who best tells their story?

    2/1/18Reply
    John Lovaas

    John LovaasAre you headed for Durango?

    2/1/18Reply
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