They at once built a palisade fort about 200 ft.
The intercellular spaces are here very narrow channels between the palisade cells.
It is surrounded with a palisade and ditches.
Rugs of skins or rush matting were used for sitting on, and the whole - was surrounded with a palisade.
When the outbreak of the second war with Great Britain in 1812 gave the Creeks assurance of British aid they rose in arms, massacred several hundred settlers who had taken refuge in Fort Mims, near the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, and in a short time no white family in the Creek country was safe outside a palisade.