we hear benjamin hawkins. we hear andrew jackson. for some reason we don't hear seminole very often. instead we get phrases like this. chief mcintosh and his brigade. brigade. not his unit or his band, brigade. implying size. hundreds of creek warriors engaging in the war. 1600 of mcintosh's warriors. think about this in terms of size as we look at the historical record, as we look at the documents we can clearly see that the united states is concerned not about seminoles but they're preoccupied with the presence of the creek warriors but they're not preoccupied in a negative way. they're appraising mcintosh. once again, once upon a time four years before this mcintosh is the friend of hawkins. mcintosh is the leader of the creek soldiers against the red sticks. now here we are in the first seminole war. now this seems to be the a case. we look at the military records of the united states and they like most militaries keep remarkably good records of the behavior that they do and we read their behavior and this is what they say. creek