” Blount then commended the Chickasaw for their recent service in Ohio and presented Piomingo and each of the other Chickasaw with rifles.
The treaty was never ratified, but McGillvray reacted to it by ordering new attacks on Piomingo’s Chickasaw and American settlements along the Cumberland.
McGillvray’s sudden death in February, 1793 deprived the Spanish of their most important native ally in the region, but my ladyboy date by then the Creek-Chickasaw war had taken on a life of its own.
Worried they would blunder into a second ambush, Piomingo did not allow his warriors to pursue, but he declared war on the Creek.
That spring, a flotilla commanded by Lieutenant William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame and George Rogers’ younger brother) delivered 500 rifles, a ton of powder, two tons of lead, and 4,000 flints to Piomingo at the Chickasaw Bluffs.
Besides tools and an armorer to repair their weapons, the Chickasaw also were given a hundred barrels of whiskey which the Americans apparently felt was essential for the proper conduct of a war.
As the war between the Chickasaw and Creek turned serious, the Spanish saw their carefully constructed buffer against American expansion disintegrating and in October attempted to salvage it with a peace conference at Fort Nogales (Natchez, MS).
The resulting Treaty of Nogales formed the Creeks, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Chickasaw into a loose confederacy, but it was very loose.
Seeing that the war was only opening the door for the Americans, many Creeks were also anxious to end the fighting, but the mediation failed and the war continued
The Spanish also sent gifts to Piomingo urging peace, but assured of continued American support, he remained at war and even sent messages to the Choctaw asking their help against the Creeks.
Having addressed these concerns, the Americans then produced a treaty of friendship with the United States which was duly signed by the delegations
The British ended their support of the Ohio tribes, and in August, 1795, the Alliance chiefs met with Wayne at Fort Greenville and signed a treaty ceding all of Ohio except the northwest corner.
After a few skirmishes with frontiersmen along the Tennessee River, the Chickamauga began leaving and crossing the Mississippi into Spanish Arkansas.
With their hold on the Choctaw weakening, the Spanish decided in May, 1795 to build Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas (Saint Ferdinand of the Bluffs) with a garrison of 150 men at the site of present-day Memphis in a last effort to hold the area and bolster Ugulaycabe’s Spanish faction.
Ugulaycabe and his people moved close to the new Spanish fort which further isolated them from the other Chickasaw who were at war.
The climatic battle between the Creek and Chickasaw occurred in September of 1795 when 1,200 Creek warriors invaded the Chickasaw homeland and headed towards Piomingo’s town (Long Town).
Piomingo, however, had only 200 warriors, but reinforcements arrived in the form of 45 Tennessee frontiersmen commanded by Captain David Smith.
The Creeks arrived and surrounded the heavily-fortified town, and at this point, the Chickasaw had them exactly where they wanted them.
As the Creeks prepared for a siege, 200 Chickasaw struck them from the rear with such ferocity that the entire war party turned and fled.
Spain ended its support of the Creeks and Chickamauga in 1795 and the following year signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pickney’s Treaty) settling the Florida boundary dispute in favor of Americans.
This did not sit well with the Spanish in Louisiana who continued to occupy Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas until the arrival of the American army in 1798.
