[Codrington, Edward]: [War of 1812]:

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[AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS OF TWO ADDRESSES BY REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD CODRINGTON TO THE "BRAVE CHIEFS AND WARRIORS OF THE CREEK AND OTHER INDIAN NATIONS," IN HOPES OF OBTAINING THEIR AID AGAINST THE ... A fascinating and forceful pair of draft addresses by British fleet second-in-command Rear Admiral Edward Codrington, directed chiefly to the "Red Stick" Creek faction to persuade them to ally with the British against the Americans in the War of 1812. Until the late summer of 1814 the Red Stick Creeks had been fighting a civil war against the Lower Creeks, who were allied with the United States as well as the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations (traditional enemies of the Creeks). The British and Spanish offered support to the Red Stick Creeks during the conflict. The Creek War was largely settled by the Treaty of Fort Jackson (August 1814), in which Andrew Jackson compelled the Creek on both sides of the conflict to cede twenty-one million acres of land to the United States in what is now southern Georgia and Alabama.Hoping to exploit lingering resentment against the Americans, Codrington here drafts two appeals to the "Creek and other Indian Nations." He begins one by noting: "The great King George our common father has long wished to relieve the sufferings of his warlike Indian Children and to assist them in regaining their rights & possessions from the rebellious and perfidious Americans." He continues: "The same principle of Justice which led our father to wage a war of twenty ye

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