Battle of Ackia

Two months before Bienville attacked Ackia, a second French column met defeat at the Chickasaw towns. On March 25, 1736, Pierre d'Artaguette led about 130 French regulars and militia and 366 Iroquois, Quapaw, Miami and Illinois warriors, and was routed; his shot and powder were captured. Of 21 French prisoners, 19 were burned to death, d'Artaguette, wounded three times, among them, while two were held for exchange and later sent to the British in South Carolina. Mingo Ouma is named as the Chickasaw Great War Chief of the 1736 battles.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tupelo National Battlefield — 0.9 mi
  A one-acre park on Main Street marking the July 1864 battle of Tupelo, a Union victory that kept Nathan Bedford Forrest away from Sherman's supply line, with Black soldiers among the defenders.
• Chickasaw Village Site — 2.1 mi
  A Chickasaw village on a remnant of the Black Belt Prairie beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, with house outlines marked on the ground and signs that speak in Chickasaw voices.
• Elvis Presley Birthplace — 2.6 mi
  The two-room house in East Tupelo where Elvis Presley was born in 1935, with a museum and the church building the family attended, set near the vanished Black neighborhoods where he first heard the blues.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center — 5.7 mi
  The parkway's headquarters and official visitor center near Tupelo, with a film, a small museum of the Old Trace and the surviving New Deal houses of the Tupelo Homesteads.

More markers nearby

• John E. Rankin — 1.0 mi
• Shake Rag — 1.6 mi
• Elvis Country — 2.6 mi
• Elvis Presley — 2.6 mi