Tensions eventually resulted in a party of Creek warriors attacking and burning the town of Roanoke, Georgia.
McQueen survived to retreat into Florida, along with other Creek warriors.
The Creek warriors became allied with the Seminole and continued their resistance to the US from deep within the Everglades.
The Creek warriors attempted to take the fort in a Coup de Main, charging the open gate en masse.
From their canoe, paddled by a black man named Caesar, the three Americans engaged a large canoe carrying nine Creek warriors.
The leader of the sixteen Creek warriors who left the Spanish to join us is Soaring Eagle.
He now is of my tribe, he and fifteen other Creek warriors.
His relations with the forty-odd Creek warriors were better.
The battle was fought on June 9, 1836, between a force of Georgia militia and an attacking party of Creek warriors.
The Creek warriors refused to surrender, though, and the battle lasted for more than five hours.