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Middletown (Nevada, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
was the work of a few hours; the Indians had no time to save even what they valued most; but left for the pillagers money and watches, wampum and skins. From sixty to eighty Cherokees were killed; forty, chiefly women and children, were made prisoners. Those who escaped could live only on horseflesh and wild roots, Timberlake on the Cherokees. or must fly over the mountains. Resting at Fort Prince George, Montgomery sent Tiftoe and the Old Warrior of Estatoe through the Upper and Middle Town, to summon their head men to treat of peace, or all the towns in the Upper Nation should be reduced to ashes. Virginia Gazette, 496, 2, 1. But the chiefs of the Cherokees gave no heed to the peremptory message; and the British army prepared to pass the barriers of the Alleghany. From the valley of Keowee, Montgomery, on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1760, began his march, and at night encamped at the old town of Oconnee. The next day he passed from the vale of the Seneca River ove
Rabun (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ng into the presence of mountains. On the morning of the twenty-seventh, the whole chap. XV.} 1760. party began their march early having a distance of eighteen miles to travel to the town of Etchowee, the nearest of the middle settlements of the Cherokees. Let Montgomery be wary, wrote Washington; he has a subtle enemy, that may give him most trouble when he least expects it. The army passed down the valley of the Little Tennessee, along the mountain stream which, taking its rise in Rabun County in Georgia, flows through Macon County in North Carolina. Not far from Franklin, their path lay along the muddy river with its steep clay banks, through a plain covered with the dense thicket, overlooked on one side by a high mountain, and on the other by hilly, uneven ground. Gentleman's Magazine, XXX. 442 At this narrow pass, which was then called Crow's Creek, the Cherokees emerged from an ambush. Adair's History, 252. Morrison, a gallant officer, was killed at the head of the a
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
word he had plighted, and retained in prison the ambassadors of peace, true friends to the English, the beloved men of the Cherokees, who had come to him under his own safe conduct. And yet he gloried in having obtained concessions such as savage man had never before granted; and, returning to Charleston, he took to himself the honor of a triumphant entry. The Cherokees longed to secure peace; but the young braves, whose names were already honor- chap. XV.} 1760. ed in the glades of Tennessee, could not be surrendered to death or servitude; and Oconostata resolved to rescue the hostages. The commandant at Fort Prince George was allured to a dark thicket by the river side, and was shot by Indians in an ambush. The garrison had reason to be incensed; but in their anger, they butchered every one of their unfortunate prisoners, and to conceal the atrocity of their crime, invented foolish falsehoods of a plan that their hostages had formed to poison the wells of the garrison. E
Fort Loudoun (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
nter to Gov. Lyttleton, 27 June, 1759. We live at present in great harmony, wrote Demere from Fort Loudoun; and there are no bad talks. Capt. Paul Demere to Lyttleton, 10 July, 1759. Tranquillichap. XV.} 1759. and North Carolina; invited Virginia to send reinfor cements and supplies to Fort Loudoun by the road from that province; sought the active alliance of the Chickasaws as ancient enemibastions. J. Francis to Gov. Lyttleton, 6 March, 1760. Drayton's South Carolina, 246. Yet Fort Loudoun, on the Tennessee, was exposed to the savages, beyond the reach of succor. Adair's History Lords of Trade, 20 July, 1760. If he had chap. XV.} 1760. advanced to relieve, the siege of Fort Loudoun, he must have abandoned his wounded men and his baggage. On the following night, deceiving t July, reached Fort Prince George. The retreat of Montgomery was the knell of the famished Fort Loudoun. By the unanimous resolve of the officers, James Stuart, afterwards Indian agent for the Sou
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
and hollow. At the ford, the army passed the river; and, protected by it on their right, and by a flankingparty on the left, treading a path sometimes so narrow that they were obliged to march in Indian file, fired upon from the rear, and twice from the front, they were not collected at Etchowee till midnight, and after a loss of twenty men, besides seventy-six wounded. Virginia Gazette, 501, 2, 1. 15 Aug., 1760. For one day, and one day only, Montgomery rested in the heart of the Alleghanies. Lieut. Gov. Bull to Montgomery, 12 July, 1760. Same to Lords of Trade, 20 July, 1760. If he had chap. XV.} 1760. advanced to relieve, the siege of Fort Loudoun, he must have abandoned his wounded men and his baggage. On the following night, deceiving the Cherokees by kindling lights at Etchowee, the army retreated, and, marching twenty-five miles, they never halted till they came to War-Woman's Creek in the valley of the Savannah. On the thirtieth, they crossed the Oconnee Mount
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
n of the colonies by the metropolis as the exercise of a necessary duty. In Georgia, Ellis, the able governor, who had great influence in the public offices, was all the regulars and provincials in Charleston; asked aid of the governors of Georgia chap. XV.} 1759. and North Carolina; invited Virginia to send reinfor cementsthe wish of the province, called out the militia, and invited the governors of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, the warriors of the Catawbas, Chickasaws, Creekorest, where prisoners are slaves. No one was deceived. Ellis, Governor of Georgia, to the Lords of Trade, 15 Feb. 1760. Lyttleton, in fact, had only with profliTennessee, along the mountain stream which, taking its rise in Rabun County in Georgia, flows through Macon County in North Carolina. Not far from Franklin, their pt the Americans factious in peace and feeble in war. Ellis, the governor of Georgia, wiser than Lyttleton, had been less peremptory with the Creeks, and had been
Jamaica, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
Lyttleton with the usages of colonial liberty, first of all vindicated their birthrights as British subjects, and resisted the violation of undoubted privileges. But no governor was more esteemed by the Lords of Trade; they never could find words strong enough to express their approbation of his whole conduct. His zeal for the prerogative, and his powerful connections in England gained him advancement; and he was not only transferred from South Carolina to the more lucrative government of Jamaica, but directed to return home to receive his instructions, a direction which implied a wish on the part of the Board of Trade to consult him on questions of colonial administration. See Lord Lyttelton to his brother, Gov. Lyttleton, 30 January, 1758, in Phillimore, II. 601; and same to same, 4 Dec. 1759. Ibid. 622. In April, General Amherst, whose thoughts were all intent upon Canada, detached from the central army that had conquered Ohio six hundred Highlanders and six hundred Royal A
Seneca river (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
and Middle Town, to summon their head men to treat of peace, or all the towns in the Upper Nation should be reduced to ashes. Virginia Gazette, 496, 2, 1. But the chiefs of the Cherokees gave no heed to the peremptory message; and the British army prepared to pass the barriers of the Alleghany. From the valley of Keowee, Montgomery, on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1760, began his march, and at night encamped at the old town of Oconnee. The next day he passed from the vale of the Seneca River over the Oconnee Mountain, and encamped at the War-Woman's Creek. On the twenty-sixth, he crossed the Blue Mountains from the head spring of the Savannah to the vale of the Little Tennessee, and made his encampment at the deserted town of Stecoe. The Royal Scots and Highlanders trod the rugged defiles, which were as dangerous as men had ever penetrated, with fearless alacrity, and seemed refreshed by coming into the presence of mountains. On the morning of the twenty-seventh, the who
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 15
im advancement; and he was not only transferred from South Carolina to the more lucrative government of Jamaica, but directed to return home to receive his instructions, a direction which implied a wish on the part of the Board of Trade to consult him on questions of colonial administration. See Lord Lyttelton to his brother, Gov. Lyttleton, 30 January, 1758, in Phillimore, II. 601; and same to same, 4 Dec. 1759. Ibid. 622. In April, General Amherst, whose thoughts were all intent upon Canada, detached from the central army that had conquered Ohio six hundred Highlanders and six hundred Royal Americans under Colonel Montgomery, afterwards Lord Eglinton, and Major Grant, to strike a sudden blow at the Cherokees and return. At Ninety-Six, near the end of May, they joined seven hundred Carolina rangers, among whom Moultrie, and, as some think, Marion, served as officers. On the first day of June, the little army, after a march of eighteen miles from Beaver Dams, crossed Twelve-m
Halifax (Canada) (search for this): chapter 15
unanimously entreated the lieutenant governor to use the most pressing instances with Colonel Montgomery not to depart with the king's troops, as it might be attended with the most pernicious consequences. But Montgomery, though warned, that he was but giving the Cherokees occa- chap. XV.} 1760. sion to boast throughout the wilderness in their own towns, and among the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, and the Creeks, of their having obliged the English army to retreat, not from their mountains only but from the province, shunned the path of duty, and leaving four companies of Royal Scots, sailed for Halifax by way of New York; for, wrote he, I cannot help the people's fears. And afterwards, in his place in the House of Commons, he acted as one who thought the Americans factious in peace and feeble in war. Ellis, the governor of Georgia, wiser than Lyttleton, had been less peremptory with the Creeks, and had been able to secure their good will. Elis to Lords of Trade, 20 Oct., 1760.
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