Battle of Flint River

Battle of Flint River
Part of Queen Anne's War
This detail of an early 18th-century map shows the approximate location of the battle on the Flint River.
Date unknown; between October 7 and 18, 1702 Location present-day western Georgia Result English and allied victory
Belligerents
Pro-Bourbon Spain Apalachee	England Province of Carolina Creek Apalachicola Province
Commanders and leaders
Francisco Romo de Uriza	Anthony Dodsworth
Strength
800, mostly Indian	400, mostly Indian
Casualties and losses
most killed or captured	unknown

The Battle of Flint River, also called the Spanish-Indian Battle (1702) or the Battle of the Blankets ,^[1] was a failed attack by Spanish and Apalachee Indian forces against Creek Indians in October 1702 in what is now the state of Georgia. The battle was a major element in ongoing frontier hostilities between English colonists from the Province of Carolina and Spanish Florida, and it was a prelude to more organized military actions of Queen Anne's War.

The Creeks, assisted by a small number of English colonists led by trader Anthony Dodsworth, ambushed the invaders on the banks of the Flint River. More than half of the Spanish-Indian force was killed or captured. English and Spanish colonial authorities reacted to the battle by accelerating preparations that culminated in the siege of St. Augustine in November 1702.