The Canoe Fight was a skirmish between Mississippi Territory militiamen led by Captain Samuel Dale and Red Stick warriors that took place on November 12, 1813 as part of the Creek War.

The victory held little military value in the overall Creek War but its participants gained widespread notoriety for their actions during the fight.

The United States hoped to prevent the Red Sticks from allying themselves with Great Britain as part of the War of 1812.

In response, citizens of the Mississippi Territory built protective forts in addition to United States military action against the Red Sticks.

[4] After the Fort Mims massacre militias were formed in present-day southern Alabama to protect settlers while they were gathering the fall harvest.

[6] Six to eight men remained in the canoes under the command of Jeremiah Austill, while the remainder of the force marched up the eastern bank of the river.

Firing was then heard near the mouth of Randon's Creek as Dale and his volunteers ambushed a band of warriors who were preparing food, killing one (Dale identified the victim as a métis named Will Milfort, son of Le Clerc Milfort and Jeannet McGillivray, who was Alexander McGillivray's sister[7]).

These twelve were preparing some of the captured food when they heard the volunteers from the west bank warn they were surrounded by Creek warriors.

Austill and Dale's guns failed to fire due to the primer being wet and Smith's shot missed.

[10] Sources differ concerning Caesar's life after the skirmish: Austill stated that he remained with the Creek métis Josiah Fisher until his death ten years after the fight while Henry S. Halbert wrote that he was sold to Dale before dying in Kemper County, Mississippi in 1866.

In 1938, John Kelly Fitzpatrick created a mural study for the post office at Ozark, Alabama, that was not accepted.

[18][19] John Augustus Walker was commissioned to paint a collection of murals for Mobile's Old City Hall in 1936 that showed Austill and Caesar during the fight.

The site where the warriors surrounded the twelve militiamen on the east bank has been confirmed and is located on private property.