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Chickasaw Indian Chiefs and Leaders
Colbert, William. A Chickasaw chief. During the Revolutionary war he aided
the Americans, and in the army of Gen. Arthur St Clair led the Chickasaw allies
against the hostile tribes and was known as the great war-chief of his nation.
In the war of 1812 he served 9 months in the regular infantry, then returned to
lead his warriors against the hostile Creeks, whom he pursued from Pensacola
almost to Apalachicola, killing many and bringing back 85 prisoners to
Montgomery, Ala. He was styled a general when he visited Washington at the head
of a Chickasaw delegation in 1816. In the treaties ceding Chickasaw lands to the
United States the name of Gen. Colbert appears, except in the ones to which was
signed the name Piomingo, which also was borne by a captain of the Chickasaw in
the St Clair expedition, and was the pseudonym under which John Robertson, "a
headman and warrior of the Muscogulee nation," wrote The Savage (Phila.,
1810).
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
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