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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 ...
The United States began expanding beyond North America in 1856 with the passage of the Guano Islands Act, causing many small and uninhabited, but economically important, islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean to be claimed. [4] Most of these claims were eventually abandoned, largely because of competing claims from other countries.
February 12, 1781: North Carolina Patriot victory Battle of Haw River: February 24, 1781: North Carolina: American victory Battle of Wetzell's Mill: March 6, 1781: North Carolina: British victory Siege of Pensacola: March 9-May 8, 1781: West Florida: American-Spanish victory Battle of Guilford Court House: March 15, 1781: North Carolina ...
March 15, 1781 Battle of Guilford Court House; Siege of Yorktown in Yorktown, Virginia was the deciding battle of the American Revolutionary War and among the largest North American Battles of the 18th century. America's independence was recognized in 1783. Painting by Eugene Lami. September 6, 1781 Battle of Groton Heights; September 8, 1781 ...
His son, Felix Robertson (1781-1865), served as Mayor of Nashville from 1818 to 1819. [4] Robertson's great-granddaughter, Medora Cheatham, married Telfair Hodgson Jr., the treasurer of Sewanee: The University of the South and a developer of Belle Meade, Tennessee. She was the honorary president-general of the United Daughters of the ...
American Revolution – Battle of Hobkirk's Hill; April 27 – American Revolution – Action at Osborne's; May 22 - June 6 – American Revolution – Siege of Augusta; May 22 - June 19 – American Revolutionary War – Siege of Ninety-Six; May 26 – Bank of North America is chartered by the Confederation Congress.
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.