The massacre at Fort Mims occurred on August 30, 1813, and resulted in the deaths of almost 250 whites who “were butchered in the quickest manner. . . . The children were seized by the legs, and killed by batting their heads against the stockading. The women were scalped, and those who were pregnant were opened, while they were alive, and the embryo infants let out of the womb.”10 Red Eagle tried to stop the savagery, but many clubs were raised over his head and he was forced to withdraw to save his own life.
