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November 9, 1813 A Red Stick group took positions around 200 US allied Creeks at Ft. Leslie and warned its inhabitants that the fort would be destroyed if they did not join William Weatherford and his Red Stick warriors in their war against the Americans. Although completely surrounded, one warrior managed to sneak past the Red Stick camp to inform Andrew Jackson of the siege. On November 9, 1813, Jackson's forces encircled the Red Sticks surrounding Talladega in the hope of entrapping all of Weatherford's warriors in the same way Gen. Coffee's troops destroyed the village of Tallushatchee. Jackson's 2,000 men killed approximately 300 Red Stick warriors and broke the siege. However, a militia unit allowed Weatherford and approximately 700 of his warriors to escape. Despite this Jackson was extoled throughout the US for having inflicted two devastating defeats upon the Red Stick Creeks within days of each other. The rescue of Creeks trapped at Ft. Leslie further strengthened the alliance between the Creek Nation and the US in the war against the Red Stick faction. Also, the victories at Tallushatchee and Talladega, left 400 Red Sticks dead, wounded, or missing, seriously depleting the number of Red Stick warriors available for the later Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
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