The British arrived at the mouth of the Apalachicola River in May 1814. Thomas and William Perryman, two Lower Creek chiefs had appealed in the Bahamas to England for aid fighting U.S. troops.
By the time the British arrived, however, the Red Sticks had been smashed by General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama.
The British troops were led by Brevet Major George Woodbine, who met the Indians who were fleeing into Spanish Florida.
The British apparently evacuated Nicholls' Outpost in April 1814.
No visible traces of the fort remain.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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