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  HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  

  

  is 
  derived 
  mainly 
  from 
  Martins 
  Louisiana. 
  Gayerre 
  

   gives 
  a 
  somewhat 
  different 
  version. 
  According 
  to 
  his 
  

   jiccount, 
  the 
  force 
  of 
  D'Artaguette 
  was 
  much 
  greater 
  

   than 
  represented 
  ; 
  and 
  his 
  attack, 
  although 
  sufficiently 
  

   gallant, 
  was 
  less 
  successful. 
  He 
  had 
  also 
  been 
  apprised 
  

   by 
  a 
  messenger 
  of 
  the 
  delay 
  of 
  Bienville, 
  and 
  the 
  cause. 
  

  

  The 
  battle 
  of 
  Ackia 
  was 
  so 
  called 
  from 
  tlie 
  town 
  of 
  

   that 
  name, 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  attack 
  was 
  made. 
  It 
  vras 
  

   situated, 
  among 
  several 
  other 
  villages, 
  in 
  a 
  beautiful 
  

   prairie 
  of 
  about 
  six 
  miles 
  in 
  extent, 
  probably 
  near 
  the 
  

   site 
  of 
  De 
  Soto's 
  encampment 
  of 
  1541.* 
  

  

  The 
  attack 
  on 
  this 
  point 
  was, 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  stated, 
  made 
  

   contrary 
  to 
  the 
  judgment 
  and 
  wishes 
  of 
  Bienville, 
  to 
  

   accommodate 
  the 
  views 
  of 
  his 
  Choctaw 
  confederates, 
  

   who, 
  however, 
  during 
  the 
  fight, 
  kept 
  at 
  a 
  very 
  safe 
  dis- 
  

   tance, 
  wasting 
  their 
  ammunition 
  and 
  expending 
  all 
  their 
  

   valor 
  in 
  the 
  most 
  savage 
  yells, 
  adding 
  to 
  the 
  horrors 
  of 
  

   the 
  fray. 
  

  

  The 
  French 
  officers 
  were 
  also 
  deserted 
  by 
  the 
  larger 
  

   portion 
  of 
  their 
  men, 
  whom 
  it 
  was 
  impossible 
  to 
  force 
  

   into 
  battle. 
  

  

  Feats 
  of 
  daring 
  heroism 
  were 
  performed 
  by 
  the 
  officers 
  

   and 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  men, 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  being 
  killed 
  

   or 
  wounded. 
  Among 
  the 
  slain 
  were 
  the 
  Chevalier 
  

   d'Contre 
  Coeur, 
  Captain 
  De 
  Lusser, 
  and 
  D'Jusan. 
  Of 
  the 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  Chickasaws 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  much 
  harassed 
  at 
  an 
  early 
  

   period 
  by 
  the 
  Northern 
  Indians, 
  and 
  for 
  common 
  defence 
  were 
  settled 
  

   in 
  contiguous 
  yillages 
  at 
  the 
  place 
  known 
  now 
  as 
  Old 
  Town, 
  in 
  Ponto- 
  

   toc 
  County. 
  It 
  was 
  not 
  until 
  after 
  the 
  British 
  sent 
  Mcintosh 
  among 
  

   them 
  as 
  agent, 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  induced 
  to 
  leave 
  their 
  towns 
  and 
  form 
  

   separate 
  settlements. 
  To 
  effect 
  this 
  dispersion, 
  considered 
  essential 
  

   to 
  the 
  welfare 
  of 
  the 
  nation, 
  the 
  agent 
  established 
  himself 
  at 
  a 
  place 
  

   near 
  Tocshish, 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  county, 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  maps 
  of 
  

   the 
  country 
  as 
  Mclntoshville. 
  

  

  