But it cannot be denied that the Americans, though under the leadership of Andrew Jackson, were again outgeneralled.

General Jackson lost, in this short conflict, in killed and wounded, nearly one hundred men.

His disorganized troops at length effected the passage of the creek, beyond which the Indians did not pursue them.

Crockett writes: "I will not say exactly that the old General was whipped.

But I think he would say himself that he was nearer whipped this time than any other; for I know that all the world couldn't make him acknowledge that he was pointedly whipped.