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the giving a new lease of life to the Indian nation 

 alities, the hemming in, for a time, of the United 

 States, and the stoppage, perhaps for many years, 

 of the march of English civilization across the con 

 tinent. The English of Britain were doing all they 

 could to put off the day when their race would 

 reach to a world-wide supremacy. 



There was much fighting along our Western fron 

 tier with various Indian tribes ; and it was especially 

 fierce in the campaign that a backwoods general 

 of Tennessee, named Andrew Jackson, carried on 

 against the powerful confederacy of the Creeks, a 

 nation that was thrust in like a wedge between the 

 United States proper and their dependency, the 

 newly acquired French province of Louisiana. 

 After several slaughtering fights the most noted 

 being the battle of the Horse-shoe Bend, the power 

 of the Creeks was broken forever; and afterward, 

 as there was much question over the proper boun 

 daries of what was then the Latin land of Florida, 

 Jackson marched south, attacked the Spaniards and 

 drove them from Pensacola. Meanwhile the Brit 

 ish, having made a successful and ravaging summer 

 campaign through Virginia and Maryland, situated 

 in the heart of the country, organized the most 

 formidable expedition of the war for a winter cam 

 paign against the outlying land of Louisiana, whose 

 defender Jackson of necessity became. Thus, in 



