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Fort Nashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The fort was not a military garrison.
After losing his brother Alexander at Ft. Nashborough's 1781 "Battle of the Bluff," Buchanan wrote Nashville's first book, John Buchanan's Book of Arithmetic. [ 4 ] After living approximately four years at Fort Nashborough, Buchanan and his family moved a few miles east and established Buchanan's Station on Mill Creek, at today's Elm Hill Pike ...
Mansker first built the fort along Mansker Creek in 1780, near Goodlettsville, after Fort Nashborough was built at the current site of Nashville. Because of the danger from the Indian wars, Mansker and the people living there abandoned the station and moved to Fort Nashborough in 1781.
Battle of Porto Praya: April 15, 1781: Cape Verde: Draw Battle of Blandford: April 25, 1781: Virginia: British victory Battle of Hobkirk's Hill: April 25, 1781: South Carolina: British victory Battle of Fort Royal: April 29, 1781: Martinique: French victory Action of 1 May 1781: May 1, 1781: France: British victory Battle of Fort Motte: May 8 ...
With the advantages of military training and leadership he returned to Tennessee, then part of North Carolina, and contributed to the settling and development of Fort Nashborough, what was to become Nashville. His original home was called Barton Station and was located on Browns Creek where the Lipscomb University now stands. Samuel was a land ...
Kasper Mansker was regarded as one of the earliest innkeepers among the Cumberland settlements. In the spring of 1781, Mansker himself was the victim of an Indian attack and was listed as wounded in the skirmish. This is the only record of an injury suffered by Mansker due to conflict with Native Americans.
[a] On September 30, 1792, it was the site of the critical Battle of Buchanan's Station during the Cherokee–American wars of the late eighteenth century. The assault by a combined force of around 300 Chickamauga Cherokee , Muscogee Creek , and Shawnee , nominally led by Chief John Watts , was repelled by 15 gunmen under Major Buchanan ...
In 1843 it became the state capital of Tennessee. In the Civil War Nashville was seized by Federal troops in 1862 and became a major Union military base. Confederate General J. B. Hood was decisively defeated in the Battle of Nashville in 1864. The city became the political, transportation, business and cultural center of the Middle Tennessee ...