Carolina in crisis : Cherokees, colonists, and slaves in the American southeast, 1756-1763 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tortora, Daniel J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Subjects:
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.