<Li> Tennessee Mounted Gunmen: Colonel Robert Dyer </Li> <Li> Cherokee Regiment: Colonel Gideon Morgan </Li> <P> On March 27, 1814, General Andrew Jackson led troops consisting of 2,600 American soldiers, 500 Cherokee, and 100 Lower Creek allies up a steep hill near Tehopeka . From this vantage point, Jackson would begin his attack on the Red Stick fortification . At 6: 30am, he split his troops and sent roughly 1300 men to cross the Tallapoosa River and surround the Creek village . Then, at 10: 30 a.m., Jackson's remaining troops began an artillery barrage which consisted of two cannons firing for about two hours . Little damage was caused to the Red Sticks or their 400 - yard - long, log - and - dirt fortifications . In fact, Jackson was quite impressed with the measures the Red Sticks took to protect their position . As he later wrote: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> It is impossible to conceive a situation more eligible for defence than the one they had chosen and the skill which they manifested in their breastwork was really astonishing . It extended across the point in such a direction as that a force approaching would be exposed to a double fire, while they lay entirely safe behind it . It would have been impossible to have raked it with cannon to any advantage even if we had had possession of one extremity . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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