Here they engaged vigorously in constructing a fort, and in summoning all the surrounding Indian tribes to join them in the invasion of the Southern States.

General Jackson, with a force of between one and two thousand men, was in Northern Alabama, but a few days' march north of the Florida line.

He wrote to the Secretary of War, in substance, as follows: "The hostile Creeks have taken refuge in Florida.

They are there fed, clothed, and protected.

The British have armed a large force with munitions of war, and are fortifying and stirring up the savages.