Alexander McGillivray

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Excerpt from Alexander McGillivray: The Last King of the Creeks I come to tell you of one of the most remarkable men born in the two Americas. For a sixth of a century his fame and his influence permeated civilization on both sides of the sea. Outside of his other influence, next after John Sevier and James Robertson, he had most influence in fashioning the history of the State of Tennessee while these two were trying to build and that one to destroy. So Tennessee arose in history as land is formed and fashioned by the meeting of the waters. During his control, embracing 16 years, he held in his hand many of the leading policies of the United States, especially of the States of North Carolina, the so-called State of Franklin, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. He was entangled in the policies of Great Britain, France and Spain, in reference to the absorbing questions of these Western wilds then rife in those lands. His mind came in fierce and constant conflict with the leading diplomats of the world, including John Sevier, James Robertson, William Blount, President Washington, John Jay, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the leading diplomatists of England, France and the Spains, and amid those conflicts his abilities rose resplendent. His policy was strongly tending towards success when it was thwarted by his death. He was King of the Creeks, and, in a sense, had control of all the Indians of the South. The consuming object of his life was the preservation of the Indians as an independent nation, - the establishment of the "Kingdom of the Muscogee." After his death all of his far-seeing policies were ruined by the foolish rashness of Tecumseh, by the nation entering into open war under the inspiration of the British, at that time in conflict with the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.