The guns were turned upon them.
They spread sail and disappeared.

Jackson was severely censured, at the time, for invading the territory of a neutral power.

The final verdict of his countrymen has been decidedly in his favor.
It was supposed that the British would move for the attack of Mobile.
This place then consisted of a settlement of but about one hundred and fifty houses.

General Jackson, with about two thousand men, marched rapidly for its defence.

A few small, broken bands of hostile, yet despairing Creeks, fled back from Florida into the wilds of Alabama.