By dark, more than 800 Red Stick warriors were dead and at least 350 women and children were prisoners, while Jackson's army suffered 154 wounded and 49 killed. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend effectively ended the Creek Indian War. Five months later, under the Treaty of Fort Jackson, the Creeks ceded to the United States nearly 23 million acres of land in what is now Alabama and Georgia. Menawa, a Red Stick warrior who said as he left his home on the Tallapoosa River that no other evening would bring to his eyes the rays of the setting sun upon the home he had left forever, escaped the slaughter at Horseshoe Bend despite being wounded seven times, regained his health, and continued to play a prominent role in Creek society. Like most Creek people, he was later forced to leave his homeland under the terms of the Indian Removal Act in the 1830s. Andrew Jackson wrote that many of the enemy fought to the last with the bravery that desperation inspires, that they were eventually entirely routed and cut to pieces, that the river margin around the peninsula was strewn with the slain, and that the battle continued with severity for about five hours, with fighting and slaughter lasting until darkness suspended them.