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Tallapoosa River

noun
1.
River that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River.  Synonym: Tallapoosa.





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... occurrence spurred the whole Southwest to action. Volunteers were called for, and the Tennessee legislature resolved to exterminate the whole tribe. Andrew Jackson with Colonel Coffee administered decisive defeats at Talladega and Tohopeka or Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River, and the Creeks were forced to sue for peace. By the treaty of Fort Jackson (August 9, 1814) the future president, now a major general in the regular army and in command at Mobile, demanded that the unhappy nation give up more than half of its land as indemnity for the cost ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley
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Words linked to "Tallapoosa River" :   Empire State of the South, al, ga, Georgia, Heart of Dixie, Camellia State, Tallapoosa, Peach State, Alabama, river


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