Episode 102 Cherokee War in the South

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

British Indian Agents encourage the Cherokee to attack the colonies in rebellion. Cherokee tribes along the western frontiers of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia coordinate their attacks for about the same time the British attack the Carolina coast. After the British attack founders at Fort Sullivan and they abandon the south, the Americans are able to focus on the Cherokee and the Tories fighting with them. Fighting is brutal on both sides. Civilians are murdered. Men, women, and children are tortured. Neither side shows much interest in taking prisoners. After nearly a year of fighting, the Cherokee sue for peace. A new treaty forces them to give up millions of acres and move further west. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: A Demand of Blood: The Cherokee War of 1776, by Nadia Dean. Online Recommendation of the Week: https://www.ncpedia.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution. Today
0:19.4	episode 102 Cherokee War in the South.
0:24.3	While the British were focusing their forces on New York and to a lesser extent Canada, the
0:29.0	Southern colonies slash states could not take it easy.
0:33.0	Southerners had defeated an organization of Tory militia at Moors Creek Bridge in North Carolina in February 1776.
0:42.0	They had then defeated the regulars at Fort Sullivan outside of Charleston, South Carolina in June. authorities captured and dissipated, and the British Army and Navy chased back north in abject
0:55.2	failure, there was still one hostile group with which to contend.
1:00.1	On July 1st, 1776, the Cherokee began a series of coordinated raids on Western settlements
1:07.2	all through Georgia, the Carolinas, and even Virginia.
1:11.6	Patriots accused the Area's British agent, John Stewart, for encouraging the Cherokee to go to war.
1:18.6	Stewart had tried to encourage the Cherokee to fight in 1775 and early 1776, even supplying them with ammunition.
1:27.0	But Stewart had been forced to flee from his home in Charleston to St. Augustine, Florida in early 1776.
1:35.0	Stuart had made clear that the British would be happy if the Cherokee attacked rebel forces,
1:41.0	but he now had to operate from afar. To make things even more difficult,
1:46.4	the Patriots kept his family under house arrest in Charleston.
1:50.8	Another loyalist named Alexander Cameron, who had a Cherokee wife, was apparently more active in motivating the Cherokee to go to war.
1:59.0	When he left his farm to join the Cherokee in the spring, many were concerned that his intentions were to start a Cherokee uprising.
2:08.0	Those concerns proved correct, though Cameron was far from the only instigator.
2:13.0	The Cherokee did not need much provocation.
2:17.0	They believed, correctly, that the colonists would continue to push them further west out of their lands. The main reason they had not fought
2:25.4	back already was a fear that the colonists would win a military confrontation, as had happened
2:31.2	during the Cherokee uprising in 1760, something I discussed way back in
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