<P> The South Carolinians were told that a "flag of truce" had been sent from the Lower Towns to the Creek, and that a delegation of Creek headmen had promised to come . Charitey Hagey and his supporters seemed to be offering to broker peace talks between the Creek and South Carolinians . They convinced the South Carolinians to alter their plans of war . Instead, the South Carolinians spent the winter trying to dissuade Caesar and the pro-war Cherokee . </P> <P> On January 27, 1716, the South Carolinians were summoned to Tugaloo, where they discovered that the Creek delegation had arrived and that the Cherokee had killed 11 or 12 of them . The Cherokee claimed that the Creek delegation was in fact a war party of hundreds of Creek and Yamasee, and that they had nearly succeeded in ambushing the South Carolinian forces . It remains unknown exactly what happened at Tugaloo . That the Cherokee and Creek met in private without the South Carolinians present suggests that the Cherokee were still divided on whether to join the Creek and attack South Carolina or join the South Carolinians and attack the Creek . It is possible that the Cherokee, who were relatively new to trade with the British, hoped to replace the Creek as South Carolina's main trading partner . Whatever the underlying factors, the murders at Tugaloo probably resulted from an unpredictable and heated debate which, like the Pocotaligo massacre, ended in an impasse resolved through murder . After the Tugaloo massacre the only possible solution was war between the Cherokee and Creek and an alliance between the Cherokee and South Carolina . </P> <P> The Cherokee alliance with South Carolina doomed the possibility of a major Creek invasion of South Carolina . At the same time, South Carolina was eager to regain peaceful relations with the Creek and did not want to fight a war with them . While South Carolina did supply the Cherokee with weapons and trade goods, they did not provide the military support that the pro-war Cherokee had hoped for . There were Cherokee victories in 1716 and 1717, but Creek counterattacks undermined the Cherokee's will to fight, which had been divided from the start . Nevertheless, the Creek and Cherokee continued to launch small - scale raids against each other for generations . </P> <P> In response to The Tugaloo massacre and the Cherokee attacks, the Ochese Creek made a strategic defensive adjustment in early 1716 . They relocated all their towns from the Ocmulgee River basin to the Chattahoochee River . The Ochese Creek had originally lived along the Chattahoochee, but had moved their towns to the Ocmulgee River and its tributary, Ochese Creek (from which the name "Creek" came), around 1690, in order to be closer to South Carolina . Their return to the Chattahoochee River in 1716 was thus not so much a retreat as a return to previous conditions . The distance between the Chattahoochee and Charles Town protected them from a possible South Carolina attack . </P>

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