“C” is for Cherokee War (1759-1761). The Cherokee War was partly a local, southeastern phase of the French and Indian War and partly the result of the Cherokees’ long-held resentments against abuses by English settlers. The conflict began in Virginia in 1758 and spread southward. South Carolina’s governor negotiated a treaty, but it did not secure peace. He then requested British troops to assist in the war effort. An expedition of sixteen hundred British soldiers marched into the upcountry, burned a number of Cherokee towns, relieved the garrison at Fort Prince George, and returned to Charleston proclaiming the frontier pacified. It was not. A second expedition of more than 2,400 troops defeated Cherokee forces and systematically destroyed fifteen towns and fifteen thousand acres of crops. A treaty, negotiated in Charleston in 1761, ended the Cherokee War.
“C” is for Cherokee War (1759-1761)
