GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER Pictured in a June 15, 1871 Monroe, Michigan Reunion of Veterans of the January 22, 1813 Battle of River Raisin

 Although you wouldn't know it by listening to the Yankee and Canadian historians on Public TV, the Bicentennial of THE CREEK WAR IN ALABAMA truly begins in Monroe, Michigan on January 22. On that date two hundred years ago this January, British and Indian forces destroyed an entire American army on the banks of the River Raisin near present day Monroe and the next day ten Creek warriors who fought on the British side began preparing to return to what is present day Alabama carrying a letter from the British commander at Ft. Malden in present day Amherstburg, Ontario addressed to the Spanish commander at Pensacola. This was the letter Peter McQueen used to get the ammunition that the Mississippi Territorial Militia plundered from McQueen and his party at the Battle of Burnt Corn Creek on July 27, 1813, beginning the Creek War in Alabama.