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1700s
1739
During the time where settlers first came onto Indigenous land in the Southeast, rangers cleared the region for British settlement. This was known as a genocide!
South Carolina’s governor led raids into Cherokee territory and captured 4,000 Indigenous people to be used in slavery.
The Cherokee allied with the British and sent 200 warriors against the Tuscarora Indians.
General James Oglethorpe organized his small army to become the Highlander Ranger Force. They were tough, fearless fighters ‘brutal killers’.
Britain's Invasion of Florida lasted almost a month. The Rangers and their Indigenous allies attacked Spanish and Indigenous villages, looting and burning them, taking scalps, hunting for slaves who escaped.
General James Oglethorpe wins commitment from some Cherokee villages.
French and Indian War - The tribe allied with Britain and were able to defeat many French Forts. They controlled much of the Southern Appalachians. The tribe's efforts to remain neutral between the American colonies and Great Britain resulted in many conflicts.
Anglo-Cherokee War - A Cherokee resistance in the perspective of the Europeans. It was between the British forces and the Cherokee who tied into the French and Indian War. The Cherokee resisted and were able to lay siege to British forts, but Britain attacked back harder.
North Carolina's governor presented a strategy that the British would use against the Cherokee if they go into war.
More than 5,000 rangers from Virginia, Georgia, North, and South Carolina assaulted Cherokee territory. The raiders abducted, murdered, and scalped women and children as Cherokees fled their fields.
The Virginia Militia consisting of 700 men destroyed the Cherokee Nation. It caused the Cherokee resistance to regain momentum, as they began raiding squatters’ settlements within their territory.