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The Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761; in the Cherokee language: the "war with those in the red coats" or "War with the English"), was also known from the Anglo-European perspective as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, or the Cherokee Rebellion. The war was a conflict between British forces in North America and Cherokee bands during the ...
A commander of Fort Patrick Henry sent Henry Timberlake as a token of friendship after the Anglo-Cherokee War. Timberlake later took three Cherokee to London, 1763.. The action of the French and Indian War in North America included the Anglo-Cherokee War, lasting 1758–1761.
The siege of Fort Loudoun was an engagement during the Anglo-Cherokee War fought from February 1760 to August 1760 between the warriors of the Cherokee led by Ostenaco and the garrison of Fort Loudoun (in what is now Tennessee) composed of British and colonial soldiers commanded by Captain Paul Demeré.
The fort served as a staging point for three British assaults on the Cherokee during the Anglo-Cherokee War. It also was the site of a siege by Cherokee warriors in February 1760, simultaneously with attacks on Ninety-Six, Fort Dobbs and Fort Loudoun. Hostilities ended in 1761, and the fort was abandoned by 1768. [2]
6 Anglo-Cherokee War (1759–61) 7 War with the Chickasaw and major land cessions in 1763. 8 Watauga Association. 9 Transylvania Purchase. 10 Second Cherokee War.
Fort Loudoun was a British fort located in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee.Constructed from 1756 until 1757 to help garner Cherokee support for the British at the outset of the French and Indian War, the fort was one of the first significant British outposts west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee. Nashville, Tenn.: Charles and Randy Elder-Booksellers, 1982. Oliphant, John. Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756–63. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Stewart, David, Major General.
John Stuart (25 September 1718 – 21 March 1779) was a British Indian Department officer and merchant. Active in the province of South Carolina, he was the superintendent for the Indian Department's southern district from 1761 to 1779; his northern counterpart was Sir William Johnson, who was based in the province of New York.