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Tukabatchee, on a bend of the Tallapoosa River, was one of the ancient towns of the Muscogee Creek people and one of the original four mother towns of the Creek Confederacy capitals in the Upper Creek region. In the fall of 1811, Tecumseh, of Creek and Shawnee ancestry, came to his mother's town to persuade the nation's warriors to reject the presence of American intruders and return to traditional ways. His visit marked the beginning of a series of events that resulted in the Creek War. After addressing the nation gathered there and delivering his war speech, he persuaded some Upper Creek warriors to take up the war talk against the intruders. The Creek Confederacy was not fully unified in this nativistic movement, and the division led Creeks to fight each other in the Creek Civil War of 1813-1814.
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