Carolina in crisis : Cherokees, colonists, and slaves in the American southeast, 1756-1763 /
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Join'd together: the Anglo-Cherokee Alliance, 1730-1753
- A general conflagration: the French and Indian War begins
- Killed on the path: Cherokees in the campaigns against Fort Duquesne
- Till satisfaction shou'd be given: the crises of 1759 and the Lyttelton Expedition
- A situation too terrible for us: smallpox and social upheaval
- Put to death in cold blood: the Fort Prince George Massacre
- That kindred duty of retaliation: the Cherokee offensive of 1760
- Flush'd with success: Cherokee victory and the fall of Fort Loudon
- Destroying their towns and cutting up their settlements: the Grant campaign
- To bury the hatchet, and make a firm peace: terms and tensions
- The turbulent spirit of Gadsden: the origins of independence
- Conclusion: revolutionary implications.