210th anniversary of battle between Native Americans, US in Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Alabama: Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama last weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, the single bloodiest day of conflict between Native Americans and U.S. troops.

The battle, in which more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women, and children were killed, also paved the way for white settler expansion in the Southeast and the tribe's even