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Cherokee Timeline

1700s

1739

1608

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!

1608

1700s

South Carolina’s governor led raids into Cherokee territory and captured 4,000 Indigenous people to be used in slavery.

1712

The Cherokee allied with the British and sent 200 warriors against the Tuscarora Indians.

1712

1732

General James Oglethorpe organized his small army to become the Highlander Ranger Force. They were tough, fearless fighters ‘brutal killers’.

1732

1739

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.

1739

General James Oglethorpe wins commitment from some Cherokee villages.

1739

1754-1763

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.

1745-1763

1758-1761

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.

1758-1761

1759

North Carolina's governor presented a strategy that the British would use against the Cherokee if they go into war.

1759

1776

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.

1776

1780-1781

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.

1780-1781

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