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“T” is for Tuscarora War (1711-1713)

“T” is for Tuscarora War (1711-1713). In the first decade of the eighteenth century the Tuscaroras, an Iroquoian tribe, inhabited eastern North Carolina in fifteen towns with 1,200 warriors and a population of about 4,800 people. Increased European settlement threatened Tuscarora autonomy and put pressure on resources. In 1711, The Indians raided White settlements. South Carolina dispatched Colonel John Barnwell and a force of some five hundred European and Indian troops. After forcing the Tuscaroras to surrender, Barnwell headed back to South Carolina, but enroute enslaved Indian women and children. This led to further armed conflict and a second South Carolina expedition brutally subdued the Tuscaroras and forced them onto a small reservation. In 1715 the remnants of the Tuscarora tribe migrated to New York and became the sixth nation of the Iroquois Confederacy.

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Dr. Walter Edgar has two programs on South Carolina Public Radio: Walter Edgar's Journal, and South Carolina from A to Z. Dr. Edgar received his B.A. degree from Davidson College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1969. After two years in the army (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), he returned to USC as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Archives, assigned to the Papers of Henry Laurens.