Talk:Fort Mims massacre

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[edit] Casualty estimates

Casualty estimates from the Adams and Leckie are 400-500 whites and 400 Creek Warriors. Rootsweb reports 250 whites (the number scalps reported in other sources) and 100 Creek

[edit] Date contradiction

When was the real date of this battle? This article gives three different dates, and they are far apart. Could somebody fix this? Roy Al Blue 01:44, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Done!! --Brian 20:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of this, how is it that the massacre comes before the battle of Burnt Corn on the chronology listing at the bottom of the factfile box thingy (sorry, don't know wiki technical terms so good :S)? Burnt Corn was the battle which persuaded the Red Sticks to attack Fort Mims in the first place, according to that article. I wonder if, perhaps, the prevailing view among American historians is that the Creek War started with the massacre, and thus this is given precedence in the usual jingoistic manner, rather than the battle which the Red Sticks themselves regarded as a '"declaration of war" by the American settlers'? Seems that this aspect might do with looking into. 172.206.122.190 19:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)