August 30
1813: In the Creek War on this day, a faction of the Creek nation of Native Americans swept down upon frontiersmen at a fortification at Lake Tensaw, north of Mobile, Alabama. The faction, known as the Red Sticks, preyed upon white settlements and fought with those Creeks who opposed them. The Fort Mims Massacre on this day, in which some 250 frontiersmen were killed, stirred the American South into a vigorous response. A militia led by General Andrew Jackson destroyed two Indian villages that fall: Tallasahatchee and Talladega.
1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run ended with a decisive Confederate victory, during the American Civil War.
1800: Gabriel, an African American bondsman, assembled an army of about 1,000 slaves outside Richmond, Virginia, in the first major slave rebellion in U.S. history.
1637: The Boston church banished Anne Hutchinson from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her liberal viewpoints and criticism of the Puritans.
1282: The Aragonese landed at Trapani in support of the Sicilian revolt against Charles I, Angevin king of Naples-Sicily, which had begun with the massacre of the French known as the Sicilian Vespers. |
