The Battle of Ocheesee took place on a bluff overlooking the Apalachicola River, in northwest Spanish Florida, beginning in December of 1817.
With the convoy halted, the troops at Fort Scott were at risk of starvation, on half-rations for "a long time".
[2]: 137 The underlying issue was ownership of land south of the Flint River, which the other faction of the Creeks (who had just had a civil war) had ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Fort Jackson.
The Red Sticks were not a party to the treaty (they were not even notified), and claimed that those Creeks had no right to give away their land.
The treaty was, in this regard, unenforceable, since the British were scarcely going to send out troops to guarantee Indian rights.